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Taking Lives (2004)   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 "Angelina Jolie's best work since she won an Oscar for Girl, Interrupted." more... B- Boston Globe Wesley Morris "...lifeless and beside the point..." more... D   Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "...an effective thriller..." more... B   Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder "...an unimaginative, protracted gore-fest..." more... D   E! Online "A twist or two will only throw off some--but most will be able to solve this crime all too easily." more... C- filmcritic.com David Levine "Taking Lives surprises and satisfies beyond initial expectations." more... B   Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "First-rate production values and Angelina Jolie cannot overcome threadbare material." more... C   New York Post Megan Lehmann "...smarter than your average serial-killer movie..." more... B- New York Times A.O. Scott "...things unfold in the usual hyped-up, improbable fashion." more... C- ReelViews James Berardinelli " There are reasons to recommend this movie, but, in the final analysis, it falls short." more... B- Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...retread thriller." more... D   San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer "Once the film sells out Jolie's character, the visual flourishes vanish, each character loses about 20 IQ points, and a preposterous scheme is enacted to trap the killer." more... C   Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...agonizingly, it all falls apart." more... C+ USA Today Mike Clark "...deadly dull." more... D   * 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...)