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The Sum of All Fears (2002)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   C+ Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "...may not be super smart, but it's rock solid." more... B   Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "Director Phil Alden Robinson and his writers, Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne, do a spellbinding job of cranking up the tension..." more... A- Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington "...even the possible end of the world can't save The Sum of All Fears from its own cinematic meltdown." more... C- Cincinnati Enquirer Margaret A. McGurk "There is something wrong with The Sum of All Fears..." more... B- E! Online "... a taut script, good doses of twisting suspense, plenty of first-rate supporting players and one nuclear explosion that strikes eerily close to home..." more... B   filmcritic.com Christopher Null "...rarely makes any sense." more... C   Hollywood Reporter David Hunter "...may strike some as a disturbingly unhelpful experience." more... C+ Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas "...absorbing and disturbing..." more... B   New York Post Lou Lumenick "...truly the 20-megaton bomb among this summer's blockbusters." more... D   New York Times Stephen Holden "It's a striking measure of the nervousness of the country right now that a movie so full of holes should be as gripping as it is..." more... B- ReelViews James Berardinelli "...more demanding than the usual escapist summer fare." more... B   Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "All told, it's a reasonably effective movie..." more... B   Slant Magazine Ed Gonzalez "...the filmmakers hope to scare an already paranoid America into seeing past the narrative dung heap..." more... C- USA Today Mike Clark "...a mediocre terrorist melodrama turned even punier by real-life events..." more... C   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)