"On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized average rating to reviews, the film has an average score of 38 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".Writing for "Rolling Stone", Peter Travers gave the film 1 star out of 4, saying, ""Tulip Fever", which was shot in 2014 but only hitting theaters now after years of recutting, retooling and release-date reshuffling, should have been allowed to die on the vine ...