Red Hook Black
Metascore
13 out of 100

Overwhelming dislike - based on 4 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 3 out of 4
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  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    Dec 9, 2011
    40
    Red Hook Black crawls forward by means of stilted conversations and vacuous exchanges.
  2. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Kalvin Henely
    Dec 7, 2011
    12
    That Red Hook Black, a strained film about two friends struggling with jobs and family in a bleak, thickly spread economic milieu, is adapted from a play is painfully obvious; that it's never able to transcend its staginess makes it unbearable.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Ronnie Scheib
    Dec 8, 2011
    10
    The characters are wearisomely one-dimensional and their situations and motives almost indecipherable due to poor exposition, weirdly pretentious dialogue and amateurish thesping.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nick Schager
    Dec 7, 2011
    0
    Reprinting its entire script would be the only way to properly convey the unintentionally hilarious awfulness of Red Hook Black, which complements its stilted and goofy writing with equally inept performances.

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