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Paul Giamatti stars as himself, agonizing over his interpretation of "Uncle Vanya." Paralyzed by anxiety, he stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. Giamatti enlists their service -- only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea.
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100
I love love love love loved Cold Souls. That might be because I love love love Paul Giamatti.
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Darkly funny, twisty-cool existential tragicomedy, loaded with smart notions and filmed like a surrealist dream.
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Cold Souls has its flaws, and it threatens to sag into a Paul-like morbidity, but Giamatti’s anxious mien and unspectacular shamblings have never been better deployed.
75
Rolling Stone
You'll laugh till it hurts at Cold Souls.
75
The low-key satire would have benefited from more of a back story to Giamatti's character and a clearer sense of his relationship with his wife. But what we do get is compelling in the way of an indelible, dreamy short story.
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