Stranger Than Fiction is both about a novel and like a novel; you eagerly await the turning of the pages.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
10 Nov 2006
rotten:
Stranger Than Fiction seems like an old episode of the Twilight Zone, and the idea would have worked better as one of Rod Serling's half-hour epistles on human foibles.
– Peter Howell,
Toronto Star,
10 Nov 2006
fresh:
A film well worth seeing and savoring.
– Andrew Sarris,
New York Observer,
15 Nov 2006
rotten:
An uncommonly plastic bit of Hallmark sentiment-mongering, with exactly the kind of New Age psychobabble ending youa(TM)d expect.
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out New York,
3 Feb 2007
fresh:
The actors and the filmmakers all take a more restrained approach than you might expect, keeping the humor gentle, and the jokes mostly as literary as the premise.