Reindeer Games Critic Reviews

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Washington Post | Stephen HunterAdd Critic to Favorites

Here's a film that so merrily thumbs its nose at propriety in exchange for visceral thrills, and at probability in exchange for the really cool plot twist, that it checks in as the guiltiest pleasure since "The 13th Warrior."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

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