| 63 |
New York Daily News
Becomes a very conventional suspense film, replete with virtually every cliche of the genre, some used more than once.
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| 63 |
USA Today
Robbins' performance as Winston is the best thing in the movie.
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| 60 |
Los Angeles Times
It is ultimately more routine than provocative, despite the timeliness and seriousness of the issues it raises.
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| 60 |
Wall Street Journal
I do wish Mr. Robbins's one-note co-stars had been worthy of his performance, and that some of the melodramatics hadn't been quite so slapdash.
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| 60 |
Village Voice
It's a kick to see the Tim Robbins version of the man recently described by the Microsoft trial judge as "Napoleonic" installed in a disgustingly opulent Bond-villain HQ/pad, and the overwrought Boiler Room-meets-The Game scenario is not without its own schlocky pleasures.
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| 58 |
Portland Oregonian
It's hooey, but it's hooey that picks up in the second half, not exactly redeeming itself but fitfully engaging.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
The plot of Antitrust is intricate and uneven, overloaded with twists and not very jolting surprises.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Ironically, the filmmakers seem to think the audience for this movie about super-smart people is super-dumb.
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
While Robbins has a good time playing the boyish devil, the rest of the principals transmit on an awfully low baud rate.
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| 50 |
Boston Globe
An example of a film that begins with a provocative idea and then runs itself into the ground with clumsy structuring.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
They might have been able to make a nice little thriller out of Antitrust if they'd kept one eye on the Goofy Meter.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Taps into a fear hitherto unexplored by cinema: fear of Bill Gates.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
Silly but fairly harmless.
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| 50 |
Variety
Robbins is such a live wire that he's able to jumpstart his co-stars whenever they're interfacing onscreen.
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| 38 |
New York Post
An inferior factory product, cranked out with little care and less imagination, that seems all the dumber because it's pretending to be smart and topical.
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| 38 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
An unintentional high-tech hoot.
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| 38 |
Charlotte Observer
Better than you might expect, if you didn't expect it to be any good.
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| 30 |
Salon.com
Poops out before it ever really gets going.
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| 30 |
Dallas Observer
This compression of logic--coupled with two hours of ham-fisted delivery--guarantees that Antitrust won't jangle your nerves but will intermittently split your sides with laughter.
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
As a film, it essentially bites.
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| 25 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It's phony and forced, but mostly it's just silly. If there was once a satirical edge to this thriller, it's been programmed right out.
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| 25 |
Chicago Tribune
A big techno-dud.
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| 20 |
Austin Chronicle
A storyline that makes less sense than the current state of tech stocks on the Nasdaq.
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| 20 |
Film.com
A crap film that's steeped in liberal paranoia, but it's also so ludicrous that it falls under the guilty-pleasure category.
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| 20 |
Slate
Libel on one of the true visionaries of American business in the 20th century, a man unfairly demonized for doing what others strove to do but doing it faster and better.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
It's too bad we don't have red, glowing DELETE buttons next to those soda cup holders. I could have done the world a favor.
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| 10 |
Mr. Showbiz
Antitrust is anti-fun, anti-wakefulness, and anti-interesting.
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| 10 |
Rolling Stone
Gives us good reason to believe that January really is the month Hollywood studios use to bury their cheesiest mistakes.
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| 0 |
Miami Herald
Monumentally silly thriller.
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