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Dead Man's Shoes
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52 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 24 Ratings

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  • Starring: Gary Stretch, Paddy Considine, Toby Kebbell
  • Summary: A genre-defying film blending horror, supernatural elements, comedy, and social realism. Set in a Midlands village, it explores the underbelly of contemporary rural Britain in communities where crime is unchecked and drugs, intimidation, and power games are blandly accepted as the fabric of daily life. (Magnolia Pictures)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 14
  3. Negative: 3 out of 14
  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    83
    For all Dead Man's Shoes' well-paced, well-observed boondocks melodrama, its premise seems simultaneously slender and overheated.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    50
    The imagery is exotically grungy and jumbled by flashback, but in the end, the picture's more pulp than juice.
  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    30
    Like so many movies of its kind, Dead Man's Shoes gets hopelessly lost in vicious process, and so loses all sight of anything you might optimistically call insight.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. RichR.
    10
    Are you kidding? This is a great film, made even greater because Paddy Considine (one of the best actors in the English language, who stole the show in In America) is in it. Then, to top it off, Toby Kebbell, who is in Control, the Ian Curtis movie? This is a stone great film. Perfectly paced, perfectly acted and shot, perfectly written. Paddy should get more lead parts. Few actors can show as much emotion, menace, and vulnerability.… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. Mase
    5
    Not nearly as vicious as people might leave you to believe. Sort of a bland English Death Wish. Spends way to much time with the dopey hood characters and too little with Paddy. Makes you want to the characters to die because they are annoying and not because they abused a mentally challenged boy.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. DirtyCash
    0
    This picture is amateur hour at it's worst. From the shoddy editing to the campy screen writing (if it wasn't completely improvised, hard to tell when no real actors were actually hired), Dead man's shoes never aspires to be much more than a low budget B-movie at best. The user reviews that you will find in here are just a joke. Apparently the entire production crew signed up to pen down lavish acclaim which will have you rolling your eyes in disdain if you've actually manage to see the film. Be honest and rate a movie according to it's overall quality and in comparison with other movies no matter if it's a high or low budget film.… Expand
    • 0 of 1 users said yes

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