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Critics Reviews: 6 out of 10
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filmcritic.com
If the protagonist of Next were to use his ability to peer two minutes into the future before watching Next, he'd probably have enough to go on to skip it altogether. That's how long it takes to tell the movie will be high on concept and low on content.
David Thomas
Reelviews
The first act of Next is brilliant, but the rest of the movie can't keep pace and the whole thing ends up collapsing under its own weight. The film fails to play by a consistent set of rules and, while it's possible to justify that endgame twist, that doesn't mean it's a good idea.
James Berardinelli
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Next" also contains something I never thought I'd see in a movie: a one-note, authentically bad performance by Julianne Moore. After more than a decade of threatening to become her generation's Meryl Streep, the woman appears to have finally been beaten by the system.
William Arnold
USA Today
Perhaps it's because a generation raised on Sesame Street is now running movie studios, but Hollywood seems to be obsessed with numbers. In The Lake House, Sandra Bullock lived in a parallel universe two years ahead of Keanu Reeves. In The Number 23, Jim Carrey's life was bound up with the numbers 2 and 3. In Next, Nicolas Cage sees two minutes into the future.
Claudia Puig
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