Jack Reacher Reviews

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Anthony Lane
New Yorker
January 21, 2013
There is a dogged leanness to Reacher's pursuit that lifts his adventures from the generic rut ...
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Kathleen Murphy
MSN Movies
January 2, 2013
If Cruise's fantasy superhero garners as many staunch fans ... we may be witnessing the birth of a new franchise.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
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David Edelstein
New York Magazine/Vulture
December 24, 2012
Jack Reacher already feels as if it belongs to another era.
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James Berardinelli
ReelViews
December 24, 2012
A clumsily condensed mystery/thriller novel made into a movie that offers little more than every other clumsily condensed mystery/thriller novel made into a movie.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
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Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times
December 24, 2012
A workmanlike action thriller, competent but never particularly thrilling.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
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Dan Kois
Slate
December 24, 2012
Jack Reacher is an absurdly self-confident, sociopathically laser-focused detective-bot. That is to say, he's a hero that only Tom Cruise could love.
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Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper.com
December 23, 2012
The dialogue is often unintentionally funny and Cruise's performance is all wrong.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
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Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
December 21, 2012
This movie is a turkey gone rancid.
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Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor
December 21, 2012
Werner Herzog, better known as one of the finest living directors, plays a bad guy with Teutonic relish. If he doesn't watch it, he'll have a whole other career for himself playing dead-eyed villains.
Full Review | Original Score: B
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Ben Sachs
Chicago Reader
December 21, 2012
This is brisk, attention-grabbing, and generally unpretentious -- basically an old noir programmer inflated to blockbuster proportions.
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