63
Birthmarked ultimately falls short of bringing the emotion home.
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63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Brad Wheeler
The whole cast is capable. The comedy doesn’t pop, though, and even a nifty late-film reveal can’t save this film from failing to live up to its potential.
40
Los Angeles Times by Michael Rechtshaffen
The old debate over nature versus nurture is played for (sporadic) laughs in Birthmarked, a satire that's unable to deliver on a promising hypothesis.
40
The material comes across as too far-fetched to be taken seriously, and too bland to elicit laughs.
50
Frustrating as it is, this scruffy, misshapen farce still has laugh-out-loud lines, and lightly-amusing send-ups of an idea that has intuition going for it, and little else.