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  • Summary: Burke & Hare is adark comedy/thriller staring Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Tom Wilkinson, Tim Curry and Isla Fisher as the unfortunate denizens of 19th century Edinburgh, a setting rife with murder, theft, prostitution, corpse snatching, experimental medicine, and of course Shakespeare. (IFC Films)

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 10
  3. Negative: 3 out of 10
  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    Sep 7, 2011
    75
    The new Burke & Hare offers many pleasures, chief among them the return of the Landis of old.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    Sep 9, 2011
    50
    All of the actors are enjoying themselves, and the movie is stuffed with history, atmosphere and vivid characters. What's in short supply, though, is laughter.
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    Dec 1, 2011
    38
    If anything, Burke & Hare is a slaphappy mess that recalls Landis's earliest work on 1970s midnight movies like "Schlock'' and "The Kentucky Fried Movie.''

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