Red Riding: 1980 Reviews
CultureCatch
If Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Criminal Minds, and Lovely Bones haven't sated your hunger for watching entertainments showcasing the abuse, torture, and murder of children and women, you are in luck.
Times-Picayune
Unrolling at a frustratingly slow pace, it's the weak link in the series, but it's still an extraordinary -- and extraordinarily well-assembled -- series.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
BrianOrndorf.com
1980 benefits from calmer direction and a better class of actors, while gradually drawing out an additional serial killer tale that goes beyond journalistic investigation to pry open the black heart of the local law.
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| Original Score: B+
Movie Retriever
It's a good film on its own and it's made great by its place between two others.
Reeling Reviews
This second film, which paints the West Yorkshire police as first degree multiple murderers, has a strong subtext of woman and their children.
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| Original Score: B
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
An amazing conceit.
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| Original Score: B
Top CriticStands as a wrenching tale of power abused and lives discarded. It is powerful stuff.
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| Original Score: B
Goatdog's Movies
A huge step up from the unfollowable plot and unfathomable evil of Red Riding: 1974.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Groucho Reviews
Aside from the ongoing criminal mystery and obstruction of powerful men, it's a tale of dreary duty. [Blu-ray]
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Austin Chronicle
1980 isn't a placeholder by any means, but it suffers by its middle placement, lacking the newness of the first film or the cumulative satisfactions of the last.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
