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Hancock (2008)   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:   C+ Source Brief Review Grade* Boston Globe Wesley Morris "...weaknesses outweigh strengths." more... C   Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "The movie has a lot of laughs, but Smith avoids playing Hancock as a goofball and shapes him as serious, thoughtful and depressed." more... B   Chicago Tribune Matt Pais "Nice idea--what if a superhero didn't have a secret identity and had to play to the media?--but a medium-sized oops on the execution." more... B- E! Online Alex Markerson "...it's hard to find a clear villain in this piece, and even harder to accept the way Hancock eventually turns around." more... C   Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum "...director Peter Berg... and cinematographer Tobias Schliessler favor a visual style that can best be described as Serious Focus on the Eyeball." more... C+ filmcritic.com Brian Chen "The movie's best as a comedy and worst when it tries to get serious." more... C   Hollywood Reporter Stephen Farber "Great concept, shaky execution." more... C+ Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan "It's a strange feeling to see the summer's most promising premise self-destruct into something bizarre and unsatisfying..." more... C- New York Post Lou Lumenick "This movie fails so spectacularly - and on so many levels - that it's like watching a train plummet off a bridge." more... C- New York Times Manohla Dargis "...it has a raggedness that speaks honestly to the fundamental human fragility that makes the greatest heroes super." more... B- ReelViews James Berardinelli "...shows all the signs of studio interference and never establishes a clear identity or tone." more... B- Rolling Stone Peter Travers "Bateman doesn't make a false move..." more... B   Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker "Even by the standards of a maturing superhero genre, this is not a film for kids." more... B- USA Today Claudia Puig "What starts out with a sense of quirky fun loses direction and devolves into a mishmash of story lines." more... C   * 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...)