| 91 |
Entertainment Weekly
High school reunions should only be this satisfying.
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| 90 |
Los Angeles Times
A wild at heart, anarchic comedy that believes in living dangerously.
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| 90 |
Washington Post
A hilarious new addition to the wonderfully warped Generation X-Files.
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| 90 |
Rolling Stone
A bright burst of action and comedy with a cast that makes for rousing good company.
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| 90 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Smart in a rare way that matters greatly to good contemporary comedy: Like last year's "Flirting With Disaster," its script and direction underplay absurd situations, letting its characters amuse without showing the strains of forced wackiness.
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| 90 |
Time
In its soft-spoken way, it is fierce, shaggy and deeply weirded out.
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| 90 |
LA Weekly
With a brisk pace and satiric blend of nostalgia and violence, it's the sharpest, funniest comedy so far this year.
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| 88 |
San Francisco Examiner
Barbara Shulgasser
This movie has the jaunty good cheer of another great movie about hit men, "Prizzi's Honor." And that is high praise indeed.
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| 88 |
Chicago Tribune
Grosse Pointe Blank is covering the same kind of territory as that elephantine, if exciting, 1994 family man-killer thriller, "True Lies." But this time, the joke stings. [11 April 1997, Friday, p.A]
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| 80 |
Variety
Leonard Klady
The zeal and good nature of the cast overcome the artificial quality of the situations.
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| 80 |
The New Republic
As Blank, Cusack is both proud and remorseful. And the amazing thing is that as usual, you believe him. [Oct 10, 1997]
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| 80 |
Film.com
Armitage, Cusack and his Evanston chums have their work cut out for them to turn a stone killer into a sympathetic romantic character. That they succeed in such a shrewdly funny way is downright amazing.
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| 80 |
New Times (L.A.)
Peter Rainer
It's a killing comedy for people who have learned to stop worrying and love their iden-tity crisis.
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| 80 |
Newsweek
A premise this preposterous must be carried off with unflappable comic conviction, and Cusack is just the right man for the job.
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| 80 |
The New York Times
Enough wild-card energy to keep it bright and surprising.
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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
Alison Macor
A wacky joyride.
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| 75 |
USA Today
The kind of quirky, character-driven comedy they don't make much anymore.
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| 75 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
An entertaining oddity, an amiably black comedy whose bared teeth double as an engaging smile: It takes a satiric bite and leaves you laughing through the pain.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
This clever and original movie is like a John Hughes comedy for the '90s.
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| 70 |
Salon.com
As black comedies go, Grosse Pointe Blank is just sort of gray.
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| 70 |
TV Guide
A slick, mannered and frequently clever comedy.
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| 63 |
Chicago Sun-Times
The film takes the form but not the feel of a comic thriller. It's quirkier than that.
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| 63 |
ReelViews
A bleak, black satire that occasionally strays all the way into "Pulp Fiction" territory.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
The picture is a soggy, all-over-the- place mess.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
An unholy mess that becomes steadily more incoherent -- morally, dramatically, and conceptually.
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| 50 |
Film Threat
Ron Wells
It's damn funny. It's also the best date film I've seen in a long time.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Dave Kehr
The tone remains uneasily divided between lightly realistic character comedy and the darkest, chilliest kind of farce.
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