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The Hollywood Reporter
The one weak link in the production is Carell as the real-world Hogancamp. He often overdoes his character's savant-like tics and at worst comes close to parody.
Empire
A genuine oddity, 'Welcome To Marwen' may not hit the emotional highs but mixes high-concept fun with a sincere attempt to describe trauma in an original visceral way. And Zemeckis? filmmaking remains exemplary.
Variety
The film is far from incompetent, and it brims with ambition, but too much of the time what?s happening just sits there. It?s a lavishly odd concoction, like a feel-good movie for OCD miniature-world Barbie-doll fetishists.
Indiewire
A story about the relationship between truth and imagination, Zemeckis has created a sometimes fun, often morbidly compelling, and always ill-advised testament to the ways in which those healing powers can create problems of their own.
Entertainment Weekly
It?s all a bit pervy. If 'Marwencol' made your heart go out to Mark, 'Welcome to Marwen' does something quite different. It makes you want to back away from him slowly.
The Guardian
Robert Zemeckis tries too hard to sentimentalise Mark Hogancamp?s story, meaning what might have been a complicated drama plays like a dud Forrest Gump.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote