| Good Critique | Movie | Bad Critique |
| Gilliam keeps the audience guessing, and creates an effective rumination on the nature of sanity and madness cloaked in the shroud of a sci-fi thriller. [Austin Chronicle] | |
| Aptly for a film so concerned with time, it is 13 minutes shy of three hours and just flies by. If this is Fincher selling out, can he sell out more often please? [Empire] | |
| Ritchie's got something all his own: a go-for-broke energy that cuts through the cliches of the crime genre. [Rolling Stone] | |
| This weirdly off-kilter suspenser goes well beyond the usual police procedural or killer-on-a-rampage yarn due to a fine script and striking craftsmanship. [Variety] | |
| A full-on action flick, subversive rom-com and weapons-grade star vehicle that's drenched in Tinseltown glitz, from a director who knows how to put the money on the screen.[Empire] | |
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| Pulls you in, challenges your prejudices, rocks your world and leaves you laughing in the face of an abyss. It's an uncompromising American classic. [Rolling Stone] | |
| In a league with Hollywood's top historical epics, ancient or otherwise. It's stunningly handsome film, with an equally stunning cast and engrossing story. [Chicago Tribune] | |
| With its exploded notions of heroism, torture-rack dramatics and kamikaze gusto, it's a fiendishly entertaining flick. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch] | |
| It's a scrumptious and dizzy-spirited lark, a what-the-hell-let's-rob-the-casino flick made with wit and brains and dazzle and virtuosity. [Entertainment Weekly] | |
| May be the most ambitious movie of the year, tackling towering communication barriers, global politics and cultural divides in a complex and fascinating narrative. [USA Today] | |
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