The Numbers Station
Image Entertainment | Release Date: April 26, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
39
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
3
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York PostLou LumenickApr 26, 2013
The agent in this interesting little thriller — well played by John Cusack — is up to the Company’s usual dirty tricks. Read full review
70
Village VoiceChuck WilsonApr 23, 2013
There are some decent shootouts, but the movie's strongest assets are the soulful performances Danish director Kasper Barfoed, making his American debut, draws from Cusack and Akerman. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesBill StametsApr 25, 2013
Director Kasper Barfoed defaults to intense replays of surveillance audio recordings, frantic strokes on computer keyboards, and standard-issue chases. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubA.A. DowdApr 24, 2013
In The Numbers Station, a joyless sins-of-the-government thriller, Cusack sinks to new depths of meditative glumness to play a black-ops agent nursing a guilty conscience. Read full review
40
VarietyJustin ChangApr 28, 2013
Sentencing a sad-looking John Cusack and a hard-working Malin Akerman to roughly 90 minutes of solitary confinement in a poorly lit underground bunker, this glum, juiceless spy thriller is a by-the-numbers affair indeed, unlikely to find an audience on any frequency. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineTomas HachardApr 21, 2013
Sits awkwardly between shoot 'em up and psychological thriller without offering the excitement of either. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleApr 25, 2013
A predictable hodgepodge of uninteresting psychological cat-and-mouse, dimly lighted action. Read full review
20
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisApr 25, 2013
This dreary spy drama is as flat and airless as the concrete bunker in which it unfolds. Read full review
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