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Everything Is Illuminated (2005)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B- Source Brief Review Grade* Boston Globe Ty Burr "...a touching road movie." more... B- Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert " The opening hour or so is a weirdly hilarious comedy..." more... A- Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt "...although Schreiber's hip, intelligent eye is a nice match for Foer's hip, intelligent pen, his movie strays from its own history..." more... C+ E! Online "...a genial, gently funny and, if not illuminating, moving road trip." more... B- Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum "...Everything Is Illuminated is impressively well lit." more... B+ filmcritic.com Jay Antani "...badly adapted..." more... C- Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen "...effectively retains the book's warm eccentricity and gently persuasive sentimentality." more... B+ New York Post Lou Lumenick "...excruciatingly affected from beginning to end." more... D   New York Times A.O. Scott "...whimsical when it should be darkly funny and poignant when it should be devastating." more... C   ReelViews James Berardinelli "...it fails more often than it works, and sitting through the 110-minute running length can be a tedious experience." more... C   Rolling Stone Peter Travers "(Elijah) Wood, whose mostly mute turn is defined by his black suit and glasses, can only stare in stupefaction at Schreiber's jittery mix of broad laughs and sentiment." more... C   San Francisco Chronicle G. Allen Johnson "...almost a screwball comedy..." more... B   Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak "There's an innate integrity in the film's simplicity..." more... B- USA Today Claudia Puig "But while the plot is scaled back and the cast of characters reduced, the story's intrinsic value and imaginative zest remain, as does the book's hilarious dialogue." more... B   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)