Headhunters
Metascore
72 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
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  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    May 9, 2012
    88
    It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as Headhunters did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    Apr 26, 2012
    90
    Headhunters is a dark adult entertainment, a wild and bloody adrenaline rush of a movie that deals in gleeful grotesqueness and over-the-top implausibilities.
  3. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Joe Morgenstern
    Apr 26, 2012
    90
    A transgenre thriller that glides effortlessly from crisp social commentary through off-kilter comedy to paranoid terror, it's on my short list of the most enjoyable movies in recent memory.
  4. NPR
    Reviewed by: Bob Mondello
    Apr 27, 2012
    85
    The film has some fairly grisly violence, but also considerable humor and the sort of intricate, thought-through storytelling you'd expect from Hitchcock or the Coen brothers.
  5. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Sam Adams
    Apr 25, 2012
    83
    Headhunters' title rapidly turns literal, and what seemed like a lightweight heist thriller careens into a bloody-minded game of cat and mouse.

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User Score
8.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 50 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Dongangstar
    10
    What a great movie. I guess this will be the Norwegian entry for the Academy Awards. Very good story, fast, intelligent, very good lead actor, wonderful performances in general. Sure it's all about that special thing in the motion picture industry, I guess this Director has just built his ..., it starts with an 'r' ;)… Full Review »
  2. damonhatefi
    10
    The most intense, exciting and well-made movie I have seen in YEARS! Probably the best EVER in it's genre!! A must see for anyone and everyone, take all your friends!!!… Full Review »
  3. pinattar
    8
    A great Norwegian crime/thriller, very entertaining. Well acted from everyone involved, interesting story and well directed. Synnøve Macody Lund and Aksel Hennie were standouts for me, especially considering that it was Lund's first time in a movie. As for the story, it's a well crafted puzzle that all fits together perfectly in the end. Very intriguing and smart. But not as funny as other people are saying it is, this is definitely not a dark comedy. The movie does however slow down in the parts of the middle but never for long, some parts are a little "ridiculous" but not overly ridiculous as other crime movies. A great film if you don't mind subtitles. 8.8/10.… Full Review »
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