| 80 |
Film.com
If you're interested in heavy-lidded moodiness and lots of attitude, Phillippe and Del Toro can't be beat.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
It's good fun for bad boys.
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| 80 |
The New York Times
May feel redundant, but it is stylish and intelligent.
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| 80 |
Film.com
A tiny slice of bleak, black near-perfection.
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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
All the players deliver performances that kill.
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| 75 |
USA Today
Gives new meaning to the phrase "not for the squeamish."
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| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly
Plays like an unusually ritzy festival circuit audition film, though McQuarrie, it must be said, aces the audition.
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| 70 |
Village Voice
Way of the Gun is a self-consciously American odyssey.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Falters seriously is its too-leisurely pacing.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
A confused, empty, only occasionally funny mess of a movie.
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| 63 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
So many characters to keep track of, so little time!
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
What pulls us along through the inky shoals of The Way of the Gun? Sheer style, plus the movie's refusal to play nice.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Sometimes trips over its own contrivance, especially at the ammo-ridden end.
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| 63 |
Miami Herald
Sporadically engrossing in a pulpy kind of way.
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| 63 |
Chicago Sun-Times
There's a good story buried somewhere in this melee.
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| 60 |
Variety
Each of the talented thesps has some good moments, but, ultimately, none can rise above the limitations of the material and filmmaking.
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| 58 |
Portland Oregonian
A movie that drags.
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| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Edgy, hard-boiled crime drama that is very much in this Tarantino-esque tradition.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
A misfire.
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| 42 |
Mr. Showbiz
An empty, affected exercise, executed with just enough style to make you wish McQuarrie had a motive beyond his own career.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
In the end the film has absolutely nothing to say.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
Steve Mikulan
Isn't a bad film, but as we watch it we're constantly rewriting it in our minds to make it a better one.
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| 40 |
Dallas Observer
This film is no "Usual Suspects," because there is no twist, no gotcha.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
John Anderson
An implement of destruction loaded with more borrowed film riffs than could be compiled by 47 clones of Robert Rodriguez..
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
As ugly, excessive and vulgar as "The Usual Suspects" was stylish, subtle and suave.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten, pretentious movie full of minimalist dialogue and self-consciously arty cinematography.
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| 20 |
Time
What aims at being terrifying is just loud and goofy.
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| 20 |
Rolling Stone
Doesn't deliver an ounce of charm.
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| 10 |
Salon.com
The directorial debut of the writer of "The Usual Suspects" keeps tossing the genre hand grenades one might expect, but they all wind up duds.
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| 10 |
Chicago Reader
A lot of uninteresting and unpleasant people torture, abuse, and fire guns at a lot of other uninteresting and unpleasant people, in a repulsive, interminable would-be crime thriller.
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