Toronto Star February 23, 2007 Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times. Charles Manson was born Nov. 12 (11 + 12 = 23). The Mayans believed the world would end on Dec. 23, 2...
Slant Magazine February 23, 2007 This review’s opening sentence, the really dull, pointless one that you are reading at this very moment, is comprised of exactly 23 ...
It makes you want to cover your eyes and clutch your ears.
filmfreak.be March 13, 2007 Pretty much every important date in history…can be teased to fit the pattern. What can’t be hammered out of this fixation, apparently, is&nbs...
How do we loathe thee, The Number 23? Let us count the ways.
The author’s obsession with the number 23 becomes Walter’s, and we’re treated to a lot of examples of numbers that...
Daily Telegraph February 23, 2007 Carrey tries hard to parlay his usual mad mugging into serious mad mugging, but Joel Schumacher isn’t the director to get him there. Count Sc...
timeoutny.com March 3, 2007 It just adds up to sheer ineptitude.
Mind-numbingly silly conspiracy thriller.
Globe and Mail February 23, 2007 If nothing else – and, trust me, there ain’t much else – the title has a satisfying ring of candour. Yep, The Number 23&n...
calendarlive.com February 22, 2007 Carrey has never looked so uncomfortable on-screen.
Schumacher is as much to blame for this mess as Carrey is. Over and over again, he mistakes looming shadows and manic outbursts for tension, and hi...
Schumacher is as much to blame for this mess as Carrey is. Over and over again, he mistakes looming shadows and manic outbursts for tension, and hi...
This thriller’s biggest mistake is its belief that it’s as clever and original as it is visually stylish.
This is a film that doesn’t quite know what it is. Perhaps a mistake would be the fairest description.
Things don’t really add up in The Number 23, but you can count on some queasy chills and trashy thrills all the same.
Carrey owns this movie. He’s in virtually every scene, and there’s no taking one’s eyes from him.
For all its gimmicky numerology, The Number 23 just doesn’t add up.
AV Club February 24, 2007 Watching Carrey babble gibberish about the sinister nature of 23 in scene after hyperventilating scene isn’t any more fun or enligh...
Shot by computer-enhanced shot, The Number 23 is impressive, but those shots don’t come from anywhere or build on one another.
ReelViews February 21, 2007 The movie isn’t sufficiently lurid or campy to be enjoyable on an exploitative level and it’s not well enough crafted to work as a...
detnews.com February 23, 2007 Charlie Chaplin did not star in The Wolfman. Jerry Lewis did not attempt Hamlet. Jonathan Winters never appeared in Death of a Salesman. Thank...
Boston.com February 23, 2007 The only fright in the nominal thriller The Number 23 is how shaggy, gaunt, and wiped out Jim Carrey looks.
