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83
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83
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82
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82
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82
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82
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81
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81
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80
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80
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79
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78
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77
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77
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75
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74
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74
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74
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74
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74
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71
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71
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70
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70
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70
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69
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69
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67
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67
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66
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66
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65
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65
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64
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64
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63
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63
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63
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63
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63
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62
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62
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61
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60
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59
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58
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58
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57
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57
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56
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56
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54
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54
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52
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50
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48
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45
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42
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42
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40
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40
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38
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36
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35
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28
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28
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22
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18
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16
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xx
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Crimson Rivers, The
Tristar Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for violence/grisly images and language
Starring
Jean Reno,
Vincent Cassel,
Nadia Farès,
Dominique Sanda,
and
Jean-Pierre Cassel
An action thriller set in against the breathtaking backdrop of the French Alps, The Crimson Rivers stars Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel in a gripping who-dunnit involving a series of grisly murders, a child's death twenty years earlier, and the secret history of a small town. (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Jean-Christophe Grangé (also novel Red Blood Rivers)
Mathieu Kassovitz
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Mathieu Kassovitz
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 16, 2001
Video: October 16, 2001
Theatrical: June 29, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
117 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
France |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
French (with English subtitles) |
Original French title "Les Rivières Pourpes"

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A breathtaking exercise in the macabre, a gruesome thriller with quirky cops and a killer of Lecterian complexity, and even when the movie is perfect nonsense, it's so voluptuous that you're grateful to be watching it anyway.

75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
The Crimson Rivers could teach many an American thriller a thing or two about sophisticated creepiness.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Does not end well. But there's a lot of pleasure in getting there.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Kassovitz keeps the film zipping along with solid pacing and just enough action to clear the credibility gaps as long as the film is rolling.

63
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
More amiably mindless summer distraction than just about anything Hollywood has to offer this season.

63
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
A confusing and not entirely believable ending clouds the issue, though, burying some fine performances and cinematography under an avalanche of gore and plot twists.
60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
For most of its running time, this lunatic euro-thriller is creepy, stylish and occasionally suspenseful.

60
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Never lacks for energy, and the director and his stars stride with focused confidence through the hooey.

60
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
Glossy, gruesome police drama.
50
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
Adequately entertaining but not particularly memorable.

50
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Wants to be about life, death and the red liquid that flows beneath our skin. It ends up being more about stage blood and stupid plot tricks.

50
USA Today
Mike Clark
Dull and unpleasant.

50
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Two things make this film slightly more interesting than its American B-movie equivalents. There's the artless way it shows the French state exercising its power and the charisma of French stars.
40
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Never lets up: A door can't shut without sounding like a bomb going off; mutilated bodies show up with clockwork punctuality, gratuitously underscored by a relentlessly overbearing soundtrack.

40
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The French now proudly prove they can make a big stupid violent cop movie, just like our gifted Hollywood professionals.

40
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
The full explanation for the movie's graphically depicted horrors is preposterous even by the almost-anything- goes standards of the action-thriller conspiracy genre.

30
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
Any cassette of "Millennium" would serve up better thrills and chills.

30
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Makes you gag.

30
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Not even the strong, reflective, world-weary presence of Reno or Cassel's energy can make a dent in a movie in which suspense and tension dissipate quickly, with action sequences not spectacular enough to compensate. All that's left is gratuitous gore.


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