Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Some of the precise meanings of this Bill Forsyth comedy eluded me, but the vibes couldn't have been nicer.

The New York Times by Janet Maslin

Set against lovely verdant scenery but structured as a series of rambling vignettes, the stories in Being Human don't entirely mesh.

Boston Globe by Jay Carr

Being Human isn't totally devoid of the gentle Forsyth magic. But it doesn't have nearly enough of it. Even Williams can do only so much with an assignment that calls for him to mostly stand around looking bummed out - in quintuplicate. [06 May 1994]

Baltimore Sun

This is a strange and indeed foolish film. [29 Apr 1994]

Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov

A nifty idea that goes everywhere (and nowhere).

TV Guide Magazine by Ethan Alter

Bill Forsyth's films are always idiosyncratic, but Being Human is so steeped in the director's interior dialogue with himself as to be incomprehensible to anyone who doesn't happen to be Bill Forsyth

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

For all of its existential posturing, Being Human ends up being a rather shallow motion picture.

Empire

There are atmospheric shots of billowing thunder clouds, priests on cliff tops, bloody stigmata and moody eclipses, but it all amounts to nothing.

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

Being Human doesn't seem to be about anything: Its five astonishingly limp parables might have been spun by a depressed Aesop who forgot to take his Prozac.

Variety by Todd McCarthy

Being Human never comes alive. This stillborn series of little fables is so flat and ill-conceived that it could convince the uninitiated that neither Robin Williams nor the highly idiosyncratic Scottish writer-director Bill Forsyth had any talent.