| 90 |
Variety
Staff(not credited)
This 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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| 88 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
It'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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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A dark, grisly, horrifying and intelligent thriller.
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| 80 |
Chicago Reader
One can already tell that this film is on to something special during the opening credits.
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| 80 |
Film.com
Andy Spletzer
An imaginative and disturbing work; well worth a look.
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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
A very nasty piece of work, indeed.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Placing style above coherence, Seven glosses over plot points and shows a weakness for cheap, lurid effects.
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| 75 |
ReelViews
While 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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| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly
This homicide thriller has a tantalizingly morbid atmosphere of unease.
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| 70 |
Washington Post
A decidedly medieval enterprise, darker in text and tone than a Gothic cathedral by the light of the moon.
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| 70 |
Rolling Stone
It'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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| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
Noticeable skill has gone into the making of Seven, but it's hard to take much pleasure in that.
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| 70 |
Washington Post
A 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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| 70 |
TV Guide
Staff(not credited)
An accomplished thriller that's nasty, brutish and relatively short.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
It'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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| 63 |
USA Today
Director 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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| 60 |
Film.com
Watching Seven is like cracking open a safe, only to find it crawling with eels
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| 60 |
Time
It 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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| 50 |
Newsweek
A style so chic, studied and murky it resembles a cross between a Nike commercial and a bad Polish art film.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
Barbara Shulgasser
While the premise is intriguing, the movie is gluey, bumbling and singularly un-thrilling.
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| 40 |
Film.com
This could be the year's most pretentious Hollywood film.
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| 30 |
The New York Times
Not 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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