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100
Viewer score based on 2 votes.

Critic Score

81
Critics' score based on 37 reviews.
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Great movie, kept me on the edge of my seat

October 04,2011
taihoryu

Very good

October 20,2010
thiagorod07
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Critic Reviews

Violence is in the spirit of the hardest-hitting film noir offerings from the '50s, but far more explicit. It's also in the spirit of the Western.Full Review

Mike Clark
USA Today

Other films this year will have to sweat bullets to match the explosive power and subversive wit of David Cronenberg's A History of Violence. It slams you like a body punch and then starts messing with your head.Full Review

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

A masterpiece of indirection and pure visceral thrills, David Cronenberg's latest mindblower, A History of Violence, is the feel-good, feel-bad movie of the year.Full Review

Manohla Dargis
The New York Times

David Cronenberg's brilliant movie -- without a doubt one of the very best of the year.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

A ticking time bomb of a movie, a gripping, incendiary, casually subversive piece of work that marries pulp watchability with larger concerns without skipping a beat.Full Review

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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