Seven Psychopaths Reviews
We Got This Covered
Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths is a sharp piece of fun that both pokes at the current climate of filmmaking while also adding its own brand of humor to the mix.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Seven Psychopaths doesn't knuckle down and decide how to answer everything tossed out for consideration, but even when it feels like little more than intellectual, postmodern spitballing, it satisfies as an exercise in storytelling.
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| Original Score: B
Creative Loafing
If it doesn't quite match In Bruges in terms of total success, it's still potent enough to indicate that McDonagh managed to dodge the dreaded sophomore slump.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Movie Metropolis
Though it seems derivative at times, it's offbeat, it's violent, it's well written, and it's well acted.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Fan The Fire
The sense that the different elements don't really add up to much may well leave some feeling cold; for others, the sharp dialogue and comic beats will produce a similar fondness for the characters that In Bruges' best scenes did.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Movie Talk
Another gleefully dark comedy thriller from In Bruges creator Martin McDonagh featuring gabby killers, scabrously funny dialogue and moments of shocking violence.
Boston Phoenix
McDonagh achieves the tricky feat of balancing cleverness, carnage, and compassion.
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| Original Score: 3/4
2UE That Movie Show
...the moment to moment of the unparalleled craziness that experimental narrative, character dexterity and into the depths of McDonagh's necessary second album psychosis.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Observer [UK]
Mostly the ruthless black humour is sustained, and occasionally some genuine emotion can creep in and touch our hearts.
Reel Film Reviews
...an entertainingly erratic effort...
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| Original Score: 3/4
Irish Times
At times, the galloping absurdity drifts into off-the-peg comedy gangster cliché. But McDonagh's brilliant way with one-liners always claws back enough ground to stifle any groans.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Contactmusic.com
Martin McDonagh gleefully plays with both the gang thriller genre and the moviemaking process with this enjoyably absurd action comedy. It's a little self-indulgent, acknowledging how difficult he found it to follow up his acclaimed film In Bruges.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Birmingham Mail
[A] black comedy loaded with some fabulous, all-American visual touches.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Flick Filosopher
[B]ursting with equal parts exasperation, despair, cultural criticism, and black comedy...
Daily Express
It loses its way after a while but the performances are excellent and there's some jaunty dialogue.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Christopher Walken has starred in over one hundred movies and whether he is playing a deer hunter or a dog-napper, has there ever been a better scene stealer?
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| Original Score: 7/10
Financial Times
Clever, ludic, perky, perspicacious - and ever so slightly tiring.
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| Original Score: 3/5
ViewLondon
The performances are superb and the dialogue is often hilarious, but the script is both all over the place and not nearly as clever as it thinks it is.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sky Movies
A movie about making a movie that constantly reminds us we're watching a movie, with characters discussing what should happen in the "movie" movie that naturally winds up influencing the movie we're all watching. Kind of.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Little White Lies
Hilarious, unwieldy, clever, snarky and snide it may be, but it's always entertaining.
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| Original Score: 4/5
