| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C- |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"A dreadful, ego-driven botch." more... |
F |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"It doesn't have anything urgent or even interesting to say." more... |
C |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
"The actors are the least of the problems with the new version of All the King's Men, now calcifying at a theater near you." more... |
D |
E! Online
Luke Y. Thompson |
"Jude Law's take on the accent is, well, interesting, James Gandolfini's is atrocious and Anthony Hopkins doesn't even bother." more... |
C |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"How could such dullness defeat the retelling, when Willie Stark is one of the most vivid characters in 20th-century American popular culture?" more... |
C- |
filmcritic.com
Eric Meyerson |
"...well-played but often tedious..." more... |
B- |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"Sean Penn delivers a great performance in an overheated political melodrama." more... |
C+ |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...lethally dull..." more... |
C- |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
"Nothing in the picture works." more... |
D- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"...a patchwork of poor choices and uneven results, the most obvious of which is its pacing." more... |
C |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"Overthought, overwrought and thuddingly underwhelming..." more... |
C- |
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein |
"It's hard to think of another movie in which the talents of a first-rate cast have been so badly squandered." more... |
D+ |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...basically a botched job that misses all the impact of both the original movie and the 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel..." more... |
C |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...aspires to be a profound commentary on political corruption, but it's more of a vehicle for scenery-chewing by Sean Penn." more... |
C |
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