Goldberger and Giamatti strain too hard for strangeness.
– Bill Stamets,
Chicago Sun-Times,
4 May 2007
rotten:
These strengths seldom mesh persuasively.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
4 May 2007
fresh:
The Hawk Is Dying is a fragile little movie, occasionally ridiculous, but with M. Night Shyamalan's Lady In The Water, Giamatti proved that he can make even the weirdest material believable.
– Noel Murray,
AV Club,
5 Apr 2007
rotten:
Imagine an entire film infected with hangdog sensibility, unrelieved by humor or narrative interest, and you have The Hawk Is Dying.
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
2 Apr 2007
rotten:
For performing half this film with a predatory bird perched and flapping angrily on his arm, Paul Giamatti deserves some sort of award.