What Doesn't Kill You Critic Reviews

With Mark Ruffalo and Ethan Hawke registering personal bests in the performance category as well as playing magnificently and ultraconvincingly off each other, What Doesn't Kill You, a true story that is powerful and completely riveting from beginning to end.Read the full review

A tough, authentic street drama born, bred, and shot in the no-spin zone of working-class South Boston.Read the full review

It tells a good story well, and in the process quietly says a little something about what it means to look at the American dream from the bottom up.Read the full review

Goodman doesn't allow even a hint of postmodernism or self-consciousness to creep into What Doesn't Kill You, and though the movie's various heists and shootouts are gripping, they aren't especially kinetic or stylish.Read the full review

Like "The Departed" and "Gone Baby Gone," What Doesn't Kill You is an engrossing, gritty, sharply written and well-acted drama set on the mean streets of South Boston.Read the full review