Generally favorable reviews - based on 28 Critics  Critic score
distribution:   1. Positive: 23 out of 28   2. Negative: 0 out
of 28   1. Reviewed by: Whitney Borup     I love love love love
loved Cold Souls. That might be because I love love love Paul
Giamatti.   2. Darkly funny, twisty-cool existential
tragicomedy, loaded with smart notions and filmed like a
surrealist dream.   3. 88     Barthes takes her notion and runs
with it, and Giamatti and Strathairn follow fearlessly.   4. 88
Paul Giamatti - that huddle of broiling instincts, out-of-
control impulses and aggravated ardor epitomized in "Sideways" -
you feel his soul's absence as dearly as its presence.   5.
Reviewed by: Ian Freer     Anchored by a great Giamatti
performance, Cold Souls is built around a terrific idea and has
serious fun with it. It also marks Barthes as a filmmaker to
watch.   6. 80     Cold Souls has its flaws, and it threatens to
sag into a Paul-like morbidity, but Giamatti’s anxious mien and
unspectacular shamblings have never