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52 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 13
  3. Negative: 1 out of 13
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  1. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Merle Bertrand
    80
    Haunting and chilling, yet biting black tragi-comedy.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    80
    This impressive - and utterly depressing - feature debut is another in the current rush of testaments to the power of the new corporation to suck the goodness from its employees and all who have the misfortune to enter its orbit.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    If you require that you "like" a movie, then Rick is not for you, because there is nothing likable about it. It's rotten to the core and right down to the end. But if you find that such extremes can be fascinating, then the movie may cheer you, not because it is happy, but because it goes for broke.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    A devilish updating of Verdi's "Rigoletto."
  5. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    A deliciously bitter tale of lust and betrayal.
  6. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Joshua Kosman
    50
    Seems to want to be a fierce satire of corporate culture. But by hewing so faithfully to their source, the creators don't let the material pursue its own direction, and the result feels dramatically arbitrary.
  7. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    50
    Everything about this curio is claustrophobic.
  8. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    50
    It’s a frequently riveting gambit, and the actors give it their all. However, the mood and the stylized camerawork make the proceedings too arch to completely succeed.
  9. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jorge Morales
    50
    Rick (Bill Pullman) is an embittered cad who fails to earn the audience's sympathy, so the film falls short of its source's tragic dimensions. That aside, Daniel Handler's script and Curtiss Clayton's direction hit all the right notes, especially in the final act.
  10. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Carina Chocano
    50
    Feels like it was written by an oddball artist-temp type with an ax to grind - which, as it happens, it was.
  11. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    50
    The belated sentimentality of the movie is as thudding as its fire-and-brimstone moralism; they're really two sides of the same counterfeit coin.
  12. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    40
    It's hard for Rick to maintain this jangled tone, which aims to be simultaneously heartbreaking and broadly satirical. The latter tack pushes Rick too far, and too soon.
  13. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    30
    A noxious little tale of Wall Street types whose amorality knows no limit, Rick takes smarmy knowingness to ludicrous extremes.
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