| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B- |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"...Mamet's inimitable rhythms and his taste for particularized lingo give the action stuff a certain personality." more... |
B+ |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"...when Spartan is good, it's surprisingly gripping and fresh, and when it's bad, it's just another overcooked Hollywood paranoid thriller..." more... |
B |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...[Mamet] is like a magician who gets you all involved in his story about the King, the Queen and the Jack, while the whole point is that there's a rabbit in your pocket." more... |
A |
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro |
"...[a] skilled exercise in a familiar genre..." more... |
B |
| E! Online |
"...constantly engaging and challenging..." more... |
B+ |
filmcritic.com
Christopher Null |
"...Mamet's skill with psychological mysteries pays off big time.." more... |
A- |
Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen |
"...initially intriguing but ultimately unsatisfying..." more... |
D |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...starts out promisingly, but quickly sinks under the weight of its own plot twists..." more... |
C+ |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
"...questions are much more intriguing than the answers..." more... |
C |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"...the chase dawdles predictably..." more... |
C |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"...a cold piece, mechanistic and only intermittently involving." more... |
C+ |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker |
"...his dialogue, and Kilmer's underplayed intensity, gives the film an engaging gravitas." more... |
B- |
USA Today
Mike Clark |
"...another movie that might have been." more... |
B- |
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