The Usual Suspects Critic Reviews

To the degree that you will want to see this movie, it will be because of the surprise, and so I will say no more, except to say that the "solution," when it comes, solves little - unless there is really little to solve, which is also a possibility.Read the full review

Dense with plot intricacies, thick with atmosphere, and packed with showy roles for a hip ensemble.Read the full review

The Usual Suspects is a maze that moviegoers will be happy to get lost in, a criminal roller coaster with twists so unsettling no choice exists but to hold on and go along for the ride.Read the full review

The Usual Suspects is an accomplished synthesis of noir elements and, as such, is an entertaining entry to the genre.Read the full review

Self-consciously bleak.Read the full review

Goes straight to cult status without quite touching one important base: the audience's emotions. This movie finally isn't anything move than an intricate feat of gamesmanship, but it's still quite something to see. [16 August 1995, p. C15]Read the full review

Look out for everything, and listen, too, because Suspects is one of the most densely plotted mysteries in memory.Read the full review

The Usual Suspects is an ironic, bang-up thriller about the wages of crime. A terrific cast of exciting actors socks over this absorbingly complicated yarn that's been spun in a seductively slick fashion by director Bryan Singer.Read the full review

This thriller is like a game of life-and-death chess, with quick double-crosses and wild gambits.Read the full review