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27 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttUnconvincing melodrama.
- 50VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyA lively, plush but unconvincing potboiler cobbled from familiar pieces of better films (and TV miniseries).
- 50Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLacks freshness and vitality.
- 40NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenA paint-by-numbers old-fashioned romantic epic, Head in the Clouds is neither romantic nor epic, but it does succeed at old-fashioned.
- 40New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerNew York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerThe film is a stodgy snooze, and Theron, who is about as expressive here as a porcelain doll, lacks all believability--she's followed her best performance (in Monster) with her worst.
- 40The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe film feels more at home with sex than war, like a romance novel where the swinging lovers find their passions stirred by bombs exploding in the distance. Their three-way dalliances are so frivolous and silly that once the action turns dark, Duigan and his cast leave audiences unprepared for the emotional fallout.
- 40The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThis pulpy, sex-drenched wartime epic seems frivolous, quaint and foolishly prurient.
- 33Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanStuart Townsend, Theron's reallife boyfriend, may have inner fires as an actor that have yet to be revealed, but in Head in the Clouds he's a somber puppy who looks as if Theron could eat him alive. I wish she had.
- 30TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThere's never a dull moment and seldom one that isn't sublimely ridiculous.
- 25Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversThis spark-free film has no place to go on their resumes except under the heading of "Cringing Embarrassment."