Critic Reviews
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Metascore
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positive
28(88%)
mixed
3(9%)
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One of the most complex and powerful literary scripts in recent times.
100
An actors' feast.
100
The film, built around McKellen's magnificent performance, is a sleek and deceptively artful work, a bio-pic that manages to encompass the whole of a man's rich life by concentrating solely on the final months of it.
100
Achieves its exquisite tension--deepening beautifully from a "Death in Venice" setup to an imaginative meditation, on art and life, of uncommon sensitivity.
90
A strange and lovely combination of cinematic nostalgia and offbeat (gay) love story.
90
Elegantly witty and haunting . . . McKellen gives the performance of his career . . . and Brendan Fraser excels.
90
A profoundly moving human drama, a quasi love story about two lost men who form an unlikely friendship.
90
In a performance of enormous complexity and nuance, emotions seem to race across McKellen's face like hurrying clouds.
88
Chances are, the more you love classic cinema, the more you will find Gods is your cup of tea.
88
It has the most beautiful ending of any American film in years, a coda of reconciliation and remembrance set in a gentle L.A. rain.
