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Reviews Counted:121
Fresh:36
Rotten:85
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: A predictable police procedural that works better as a character study rather than a thriller.
Theatrical Release:Apr 19, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $31,874,869
Synopsis: When the dead body of a woman is found in the woods near the river, feisty homicide detective Cassie Mayweather (Sandra Bullock) and her new partner, Sam Kennedy (Ben Chaplin) are assigned to the... [More]
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt, Ben Chaplin
Director: Barbet Schroeder
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Schroeder is sometimes able to disguise his contempt for the material and elevate it into something serviceable (like Single White Female). In Murder by Numbers, though, even Schroeder can't keep his own boredom from showing.
Slow pace, good acting.
Plays like Matlock or Columbo at twice the length and half the energy level.
Murder by Numbers is a perfect title, recalling the 'paint by numbers' faux-art form notable for its lack of originality and inspiration.
Proves more lumbering and obvious than dramatically strong or intellectually riveting...Don't count on it for anything beyond a modest level of competence.
Never achieves any level close to mediocre -- making the film drag on and on.
I wish I could ask for Sandy's gun and badge. She's an unintentional menace to moviegoers.
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Mediocre.
Top CriticA TV style murder mystery with a few big screen moments (including one that seems to be made for a different film altogether).
The film loses steam whenever it shifts from the teen killers to the adult pair investigating the crime.
An unpleasant though sometimes effective psychological thriller that is noteworthy for being the film in which actress Sandra Bullock has gotten her act back together.
Top CriticSandra Bullock's best dramatic performance to date (is) almost enough to lift (this) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser...above its paint-by-numbers plot.
The script is too mainstream and the psychology too textbook to intrigue.
There are things to like about Murder By Numbers -- but, in the end, the disparate elements don't gel.
Top CriticA picture by numbers. Director Barbet Schroeder connects each of the story's obvious dots with extra slowness, lest we miss guessing any of the turns.
Forget the misleading title, what's with the unexplained baboon cameo?
The standard-issue melodramatic ending is the only disappointment in this thoughtful psychological thriller.
Gayton's script is full of big black holes.
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