| 75 |
New York Daily News
Slick entertainment.
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| 70 |
TNT RoughCut
Matt Kelsey
Both leads perform admirably.
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| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
A tribute to old-fashioned craftsmanship and skill both on and off the screen, it's as crisp and efficient as its law enforcement protagonists, able to make the best of its traditional genre elements.
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
A skeleton-thin thriller wrapped in glamorous production values.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Entertaining but terminally dopey.
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| 63 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Gary Thompson
Weaknesses are confirmed in the movie's laughable climax.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Washington and Jolie earn their stripes here, but more texture would have resulted, I think, in more terror.
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| 60 |
Film.com
Although the film disappoints in the final stretch (both the villain and his motive turn out to be very lame), it confidently thrills for most of its nearly two-hour length.
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| 60 |
Newsweek
Eric S. Arnold
May be formulaic...but many good recipes are.
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| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Quickly assumes the characteristics of a bad slasher movie.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
This mild thriller's consistently dark atmosphere makes the scene-of-the-crime tableaux...transcend exploitation and even suggest a kind of feminist odyssey.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
This is neither a psychological thriller nor an erotic one, so any interest in the story is purely the work of its stars.
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| 50 |
USA Today
The ending stinks.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
A cinematic game that might be called Urban Creep Show, New York-style.
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| 50 |
Salon.com
There's only one good reason to see The Bone Collector, and her name is Angelina Jolie.
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| 50 |
Time
It's kind of fun--if you have the stomach for its more grisly passages.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
A middling urban thriller that's one part "Rear Window" and three parts "Seven."
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Often falls flat.
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| 50 |
Film.com
Sometimes star power alone can keep you from walking out of a movie, and this is one of those times.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
The quality of the acting is so much better than the material deserves.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Climaxes in an ending of such sleazy preposterousness that it's almost worth the price of admission alone.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
Two gifted co-stars, Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie, and the highly imaginative thriller specialist Phillip Noyce lend some luster and credibility to another borderline-absurd scenario.
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| 50 |
Variety
Entertaining but never fully engrossing.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
The plot and characters are simultaneously far-fetched and cliched, the dialogue has that jocular, slightly slower than sitcom ring, and the ending is a righteously cheesy letdown.
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| 50 |
Portland Oregonian
The movie's atmosphere is moody and intense, bubbling like a caldron. Unfortunately, the broth turns out to be stone soup.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
This variation on the "Rear Window" format works best when director Noyce gives free rein to Washington's thoughtful charm.
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| 40 |
Slate
A piece of exploitive schlock.
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| 40 |
Washington Post
You may have as much fun tearing it apart in its aftermath as you do watching it, but the fun is still genuine.
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| 40 |
Rolling Stone
Abandon all hope of logic, you who enter here.
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| 38 |
Charlotte Observer
If you have a strong stomach, a weak sense of disbelief, an active interest in Denzel Washington or Angelina Jolie and a temporarily inactive brain, you may enjoy it awhile.
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| 31 |
Mr. Showbiz
One of our very few consummate movie star actors, Washington can't quite elevate this dismal material as he's been able to do in the past, but he retains his dignity.
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
By the last third, one is sick to death of seeing people tortured, no real catharsis is offered, and stupid is how one feels.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
So formulaic and predictable that you're bored even when you're scared.
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