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90This weirdly off-kilter suspenser goes well beyond the usual police procedural or killer-on-a-rampage yarn due to a fine script, striking craftsmanship and a masterful performance by Morgan Freeman.
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88A dark, grisly, horrifying and intelligent thriller.
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88It's intriguing, appalling, savvy, nasty, grossly unsettling -- you may not like what you see, but you'll definitely be affected by the sight.
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80An imaginative and disturbing work; well worth a look.
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80One can already tell that this film is on to something special during the opening credits.
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78A very nasty piece of work, indeed.
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75Placing style above coherence, Seven glosses over plot points and shows a weakness for cheap, lurid effects.
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75While Seven lacks the cleverness of the superior "Usual Suspects," it's strong enough to hold its own against most other thrillers.
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75This homicide thriller has a tantalizingly morbid atmosphere of unease.
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70An accomplished thriller that's nasty, brutish and relatively short.
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70It's not the identity of the killer that gives Seven its kick -- it's the way Fincher raises mystery to the level of moral provocation.
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70Noticeable skill has gone into the making of Seven, but it's hard to take much pleasure in that.
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70A gruesome detective-thriller about a serial killer who ices egregious offenders of the seven deadly sins, portends an unpalatable combination of formulaic writing and unmitigated nastiness.
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70A decidedly medieval enterprise, darker in text and tone than a Gothic cathedral by the light of the moon.
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63It's a misfire--but a fascinating, magnetic misfire, a film full of first-rate talents forced into absurdity, struggling to bring believability to nonsense. [22 September 1995, Friday, p. C]
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63Director David Fincher shovels on more gloom than even the serial killer genre can sustain in the murkily moody, but self-defeating, Seven.
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60Watching Seven is like cracking open a safe, only to find it crawling with eels
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60It is very tiresome peering through the gloom trying to catch a glimpse of something interesting, then having to avert one's eyes when it turns out to be just another brutally tormented body.
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While the premise is intriguing, the movie is gluey, bumbling and singularly un-thrilling.
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50A style so chic, studied and murky it resembles a cross between a Nike commercial and a bad Polish art film.
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40This could be the year's most pretentious Hollywood film.
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30Not even bags of body parts, a bitten-off tongue or a man forced to cut off a pound of his own flesh keep it from being dull. [22 September 1995, p. C18]
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