Reindeer Games Critic Reviews

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San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites

One of the smartest action thrillers to come along in the past few years. It's also one of the freshest.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

It bristles with the brute force he brought to 1986's underrated "52 Pick-Up."Read the full review

Boston Globe | Jay CarrAdd Critic to Favorites

The end is a long time coming in Reindeer Games and the dialogue is mostly slush.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

Displays no ambition to be anything more than a synthetic sense-jolt conveyor of the week.Read the full review

The New York Times | A.O. ScottAdd Critic to Favorites

The movie is staged like a pit stop -- Reindeer Games goes from being fun to being laughable.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites

Its twisty film noir world of down-on-their-luck men and unfathomable women is vintage B-picture material, but, in the grand B tradition, the games it plays are more ambitious than successful.Read the full review

Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

The picture is an empty parlor trick, but it's carried out with a master's concentration.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

The first All Talking Killer picture. After the setup, it consists mostly of characters explaining their actions to one another.Read the full review

USA Today | Susan WloszczynaAdd Critic to Favorites

As late Christmas presents go, Reindeer Games is best left unwrapped.Read the full review

Variety | Todd McCarthyAdd Critic to Favorites

With a far-fetched script that might barely have passed muster at the B units in the old studio days, this Dimension release will command a certain up-front attention due to cast topliners.Read the full review

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