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Expertly shot and edited, The Usual Suspects gives the audience a simple plot and then piles on layers of deceit, twists, and violence before pulling out the rug from underneath.
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An imaginative, entertaining crime mystery with plenty of nerve and vigor. June 18, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
An imaginative, entertaining crime mystery with plenty of nerve and vigor.
Doug Thomas
If the pleasures of The Usual Suspects are the more superficial ones of ingenuity and style, those are abundantly available. The twists and turns of the plot are an awful lot of fun, while the ending is genuinely satisfying and surprising. June 18, 2013 | Full Review…
If the pleasures of The Usual Suspects are the more superficial ones of ingenuity and style, those are abundantly available. The twists and turns of the plot are an awful lot of fun, while the ending is genuinely satisfying and surprising.
Jay Boyar
In a season of fat blockbusters, a picture as brainy, bitter, and compact as this one comes as a shock and a treat. June 18, 2013 | Full Review…
In a season of fat blockbusters, a picture as brainy, bitter, and compact as this one comes as a shock and a treat.
Anthony Lane
It's a nerve-shredding suspense movie about corruption, a bravura actor's show full of deliciously twisted cops and robbers, and a complex riddle packed with unexpected turns. June 18, 2013 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
It's a nerve-shredding suspense movie about corruption, a bravura actor's show full of deliciously twisted cops and robbers, and a complex riddle packed with unexpected turns.
Michael Wilmington
For many true movie fiends, noir is the key American movie type, and the most fun when it's done right. The Usual Suspects is done right. January 18, 2013 | Full Review…
For many true movie fiends, noir is the key American movie type, and the most fun when it's done right. The Usual Suspects is done right.
Jack Kroll
I didn't believe this story for a minute, even in movie terms -- though it's less offensive than a piece of junk like Apt Pupil, Singer's subsequent feature. March 28, 2011 | Full Review…
I didn't believe this story for a minute, even in movie terms -- though it's less offensive than a piece of junk like Apt Pupil, Singer's subsequent feature.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
EVERYTHING that takes place during the two hours minus a quarter of footage comes to affirm that in Singer we had found a rough diamond that already polished some facets. [Full Review in Spanish] August 23, 2019 | Full Review…
EVERYTHING that takes place during the two hours minus a quarter of footage comes to affirm that in Singer we had found a rough diamond that already polished some facets. [Full Review in Spanish]
Sergio Benítez
A film that was compelling enough with its intricate narrative and colorful cast of degenerates, became an entirely different beast with its final sequence, putting the twist in plot-twist more memorably than M. Night Shyamalan could ever dream of. June 20, 2019 | Full Review…
A film that was compelling enough with its intricate narrative and colorful cast of degenerates, became an entirely different beast with its final sequence, putting the twist in plot-twist more memorably than M. Night Shyamalan could ever dream of.
C.J. Prince
A movie where the getting-there (and the getting-away-with-it) is everything. August 10, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
A movie where the getting-there (and the getting-away-with-it) is everything.
Leigh Paatsch
Singer, like Tarantino, is less into mining new film themes than in re-inventing old ones. And the way he does so shows full well that there is still a bit of life in the old mob movie yet. June 18, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Singer, like Tarantino, is less into mining new film themes than in re-inventing old ones. And the way he does so shows full well that there is still a bit of life in the old mob movie yet.
Dan Webster
It stands up brilliantly to repeat viewing, to the extent that you may never fully solve the riddle. But don't let that put you off; it's the ultimate whodunit. June 18, 2013 | Full Review…
It stands up brilliantly to repeat viewing, to the extent that you may never fully solve the riddle. But don't let that put you off; it's the ultimate whodunit.
It's a film that demands to be watched again and again -- this is good old-fashioned pulp fiction told in the slickest 1990s style. June 18, 2013 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
It's a film that demands to be watched again and again -- this is good old-fashioned pulp fiction told in the slickest 1990s style.
David Parkinson
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