Larry Ratliff San Antonio Express-News Aug 24, 2026

"North" is the most inventive, outrageous failure to light up the screen in some time.

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Mike Pearson Denver Rocky Mountain News Jul 23, 2026

While parts of North are amusing, the whole is never much fun.

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Sara Voorhees Albuquerque Tribune Apr 1, 2026

Reiner managed to gather a cast of fabulous actors, who are unable to balance the rotten script.

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Jan 26, 2026 0/4

I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it.

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Richard Schickel TIME Magazine Jan 26, 2026

Director Rob Reiner strives too hard for the tones of a fable, but the result is far from fabulous.

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Georgia Brown Village Voice Jan 26, 2026

Relentlessly vulgar, North can be see as yet another plaintive cry from, or cynical appeal to, the home alone generation.

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Katrine Ames Newsweek Jan 26, 2026

North shows just how short Hollywood can get on ideas.

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Michael Medved New York Post Jan 26, 2026

It wouldn't matter that none of this makes sense if Reiner's vision turned out to be entertainingly bizarre, but it's not; it is, rather, indescribably flat (and flatulent).

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David Denby New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 26, 2026

Rob Reiner's disastrously unfunny North features TV-sketch gags devoted to a TV-sketch idea.

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Ian Nathan Empire Magazine Jan 26, 2026 2/5

It's a strange concept -- the search for a better upbringing -- too quirky to be genuinely funny, too disorganised to be genuinely sweet, too edgy to sit comfortably.

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Jessica Garrison Boston Phoenix Jan 26, 2026

Like Rob Reiner's other films, North is intelligent, beautifully packaged, and full of wry humor... But it lacks a heart or a home.

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Stephen Amidon Financial Times Jan 26, 2026

The direction of the usually reliable Rob Reiner fails to take adventure of the film's satirical possibilities, playing instead for the broadest possible laughs and most sugary emotions.

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Lizzie Francke Sight & Sound Jan 26, 2026

The problem is that North never achieves the scathing satire to which it aspires.

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Sean P. Means Salt Lake Tribune Jan 26, 2026 2/4

When relying on gags, "North" goes in the right direction. When it serves up gagging sentimentality, "North" goes south.

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Tom Long Santa Cruz Sentinel Jan 26, 2026 D

"North" is absolutely terrible.

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Dan Webster Spokesman-Review (Washington) Jan 26, 2026 2/4

Nice concept, but in trying to capture the kind of light fantasy that the story needs, Rob Reiner lets the seams show.

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Jane Horwitz Washington Post Jan 26, 2026

"North" is not a movie that will entertain kids.

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Anna Maria Dell'oso Sydney Morning Herald Jan 26, 2026

North is a passably interesting idea hacked and butchered into an inept film that's as boring as watching paint dry.

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Scott Rosenberg San Francisco Examiner Jan 26, 2026 1/4

The movie resorts to a battery of unbelievably hackneyed devices to bring it story to a crisis.

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Lise Hand Sunday Independent (Ireland) Jan 26, 2026

North is a complete exercise in self-indulgence on the part of Reiner.

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