The Oxford Murders Reviews
BrianOrndorf.com
A wonderfully compelling mess of a movie. It's tricky trying to bond Hitchcockian flair with lecture hall semantics, but the director works his tricks with ace visual consideration.
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| Original Score: B-
San Francisco Examiner
Hurt sells the silliness almost convincingly, but even from such a skillful pitchman it comes out sounding, finally, like junk.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Top CriticThis purported whodunit thriller never solves its main mystery: How and why did this film get made in the first place?
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| Original Score: 1/4
Shared Darkness
A math- and symbology-tinged thriller adapted by director Álex de la Iglesia, and pitched at a breakneck, didactic clip, absent any sensible, modulated emotional investment in the characters or material.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Examiner.com
The Scooby Doo ending requires nearly ten minutes of explanation and negates the need to follow the previous 90 minutes. It's also preceded by one character stating, "In life, nobody bothers explaining anything." Well, except in this movie.
Oregonian
So bad it's good, then? Alas, the whole thing is uncomfortable and boring, scotching any ironic enjoyment of its awfulness.
A polished but verbose whodunit that's surprisingly buttoned-down given helmer Alex de la Inglesia's rep for comicbook wackiness.
ViewLondon
Disappointing, badly plotted thriller, let down by some dodgy acting, poor direction and a script that makes The Da Vinci Code look like a masterpiece.
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| Original Score: 1/5
The murders are simply chalk marks on a blackboard with no build-up and little fallout.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Empire Magazine
Not so terrible that you can understand why it's been practically buried by its distributors, but you can get better ridiculous whodunits on TV.
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| Original Score: 2/5
