Hanna (2011)

All Critics (209) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (151) | Rotten (60) | DVD (10)

While the film as a whole may be episodic and wayward, and not always in a good way, the action scenes are uniformly sharp, inventive and gripping.

May 3, 2011 Full Review

Tom Huddleston

Time Out

Top Critic

An entertainingly nutty action thriller from the director Joe Wright.

April 25, 2011 Full Review

David Denby

New Yorker

Top Critic

Blessed with considerable virtues, including a clever concept, crackling filmmaking and a charismatic star, it ultimately squanders all of them, undone by an unfortunate lack of subtlety and restraint.

April 11, 2011 Full Review | Comments (12)

Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

What keeps us hooked is Ronan, a young actress of seemingly limitless abilities, and the tension she creates between Hanna's inhumanly agile body and quizzical eyes, which turn cold only when she pulls the trigger.

April 11, 2011 Full Review

David Edelstein

New York Magazine

Top Critic

This film is bound to give the home-schooling movement a bad name, unless, of course, you're running a home school for assassins.

April 9, 2011 Full Review

Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

Top Critic

"Hanna" plays out as a visceral fairy tale about a naif discovering a world both fascinating and dangerous.

April 8, 2011 Full Review

Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

Top Critic

Jason Bourne meets Run Lola Run in a movie that brings terrifying new meaning to 'child abuse'.

March 4, 2013 Full Review

Tom Glasson

Concrete Playground

"A furious neck-snapping thriller that summons up memories of a dozen other movies and manages to improve on most of them."

January 9, 2013 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Teenage assassin trained as a killing machine since birth? Unless your movie has Nicolas Cage dressed like Batman with a paedo-tache, you're fighting a losing battle from the start.

September 28, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

For a film that is supposed to be a thriller, the thrills are few and far in between. What "Hanna" really ends up being is a missed opportunity.

September 20, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

Having already long proven her acting chops, Ronan shows a bright future as a bona fide movie star.

April 8, 2012 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

While the plot has some minor flaws, the incredible performances, characters, soundtrack and action beats of Hanna more than make up for it.

January 29, 2012 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

The ingredients are there for success, but as we build toward resolution (or even increased conflict) Hanna fails to develop at a rate to match the sum of its parts.

January 20, 2012 Full Review

Jordan Hiller

Bangitout.com

Sometimes a gritty, unpolished, and decidedly European-style thriller is exactly what you're looking for.

January 9, 2012 Full Review

Kevin A. Ranson

MovieCrypt.com

As a thriller, this strange, at times hypnotic, fable about a damaged little girl severely disappoints.

December 22, 2011 Full Review

Alec Worley

SFX Magazine

A sour, empty graphic novel of an escapade from the man who once helmed 'Atonement,' 'Hanna' gets intensely more godawful as it approaches its climax.

November 27, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Brandon Judell

GreenCine

'Hanna,' 'Salt' and 'Colombiana' should all merge together for a sequel.

November 23, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Clay Cane

BET.com

[Joe] Wright is a natural successor to the late Anthony Minghella, able to deftly mix visual panache with small-scale emotion.

October 26, 2011 Full Review

Clem Bastow

The Vine

This cool, calculated who's-hunting-who piece brings home all the requisite tension, gunplay and fighting with a great deal of cinematic style.

October 18, 2011 Full Review

Jim Schembri

The Age (Australia)

Joe Wright leaves behind everything he has previously done. He seems hardened and full of fury, perhaps a response at the unfair way his The Soloist (2009) was received. Hanna is stripped-down, fast, and fantastic.

September 16, 2011 Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

...most of the time Wright simply throws everything he can think of at the screen like the promo director he used to be. Great soundtrack, though.

September 14, 2011 Full Review

Matt Glasby

Flicks.co.nz

A flashy but disposable exercise in style over substance... [Blu-ray]

September 3, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews

Sure to deliver a whopping sugar rush, as well as the inevitably sour letdown, Hanna has all the thematic heft and cerebral staying-power audiences have come to expect from this variety of cotton-candy cinema.

September 2, 2011 Full Review

Budd Wilkins

Slant Magazine

• 1. Isaacs: I like giving people what they want.
  – Submitted by In Your D (7 months ago)
• 1. Rachel: I love the countryside. The city stifles me. Emotionally. Creatively. Spiritually. Places like this bring us closer to god.
  2. Rachel: Well, not in any monotheistic sense. Buddha, Krishna, the 'God Within'. Whatever you believe in. What do you believe in, Hanna?
  – Submitted by In Your D (7 months ago)
• 1. Sophie: Is 'kraut' an ethnic slur? Like 'queer' or 'lesbo'? I think I'd quite like to be a lesbian.
  – Submitted by Johnny D (9 months ago)
• 1. Hanna: Come and find me.
  – Submitted by Patrick B (13 months ago)
• 1. Moroccan Hotel Owner: Where do you come from?
  2. Hanna: The forest.
  – Submitted by Patrick B (13 months ago)
• 1. Sebastian: So Hanna, is your mum and Dad still together?
  2. Hanna: My mother is dead.
  3. Sophie: [to Sebastian] Nice one, Dad.
  4. Sebastian: I'm sorry to hear that. I lost my mum when I was very young, so...
  5. Hanna: It's all right. It happened a long time ago.
  6. Rachel: Hanna, what did your mum die of?
  7. Hanna: Three bullets.
  – Submitted by Patrick B (13 months ago)