| 68 |
Mr. Showbiz
This lightweight thriller has an enjoyable premise.
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
Antielitist, anti-hypocrisy, pro-feel-good entertainment.
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| 50 |
Film.com
You might not want to pay top dollar for The Skulls, but at the right price, it delivers.
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| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Cohen drives the film at a galloping pace, but it's not fast enough to outrun its absurdity.
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| 40 |
Film.com
Not quite good enough to leave more than a vaguely pleasant, vaguely disappointing aftertaste.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
Robin Rauzi
It contains, perhaps, one pinkie-toe bone of surprise in its skeleton of cliche.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
Ron Stinger
Screenwriter John Pogue and director Rob Cohen expose only the dullness of their own imaginations.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
A fast, slick, outlandish fiasco that starts out well and then seems to drop right off a cliff.
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| 38 |
USA Today
When it comes to being brainless, The Skulls is at the head of the class.
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| 38 |
San Francisco Examiner
Brainless thriller.
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| 30 |
The New York Times
Less interested in politics than in profitably flattering the suspicions and resentments of its intended teenage audience.
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| 30 |
Film.com
Looks plain silly without an appropriate tone or sustaining context.
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| 30 |
Austin Chronicle
An exercise in unintentional farce.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
Initially tolerable but increasingly stupid thriller.
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| 30 |
TV Guide
Dopey "thriller."
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
So inept it's almost entertaining.
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| 25 |
Chicago Sun-Times
So ludicrous in so many different ways it achieves a kind of forlorn grandeur.
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| 20 |
Village Voice
Energetic and thoroughly brainless.
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| 20 |
Variety
Godfrey Chesire
A silly, hackneyed college suspenser put across with all the contrived banality of a bad '70s TV movie.
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| 20 |
Dallas Observer
Full of conspiracies, all The Skulls lacks is a brain.
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| 10 |
Salon.com
This one's a pile of crap that won't start.
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| 5 |
TNT RoughCut
Graham Verdon
This skull is brainless.
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| 0 |
Boston Globe
Plummets into the realm of ludicrous failure.
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| 0 |
New York Daily News
Never graduates above the boneheaded.
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