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This tale of an Inuit coming to New York City to warn about the perils of climate change is like a 1970s PSA, complete with stock, one-note characters and message-y dialogue.
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Chloe and Theo is a film that operates entirely on a vague sense of uplift.
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The New York Times by Daniel M. Gold
Chloe & Theo is surprisingly amateurish in concept and execution. There’s a line between a narrative that’s deliberately simple and one that’s painfully childish, and it’s not all that fine. But it’s one Chloe & Theo crosses repeatedly.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
A deadly earnest polemic whose good intentions are smothered by its inept execution.
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Los Angeles Times by Katie Walsh
The climax is overwrought and cheesy, which doesn't match with the quiet dignity of the Inuit man. He carries a profound and sage warning, but Chloe and Theo just isn't the right dramatic package.
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Plays like an unintentional mashup of “Being There” and “Elf.”
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Chloe and Theo feels like Dakota Johnson’s atonement for the meretricious slime that was “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
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Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
Chloe & Theo is a mess of a message movie, simplistic, sappy, silly.