| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"...slumming with style..." more... |
B- |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...a remarkable first film..." more... |
A |
Chicago Tribune
Geoff Berkshire |
"...the film’s amusing dialogue, strong performances and unique setting help make up for the flaws." more... |
B |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"The story is...a precariously busy affair, saddled with a film-within-a-film subplot..." more... |
C+ |
filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti |
"...a fantastic start to a new career." more... |
B+ |
Hollywood Reporter
James Greenberg |
"Chock full of wonderful lines delivered by a splendid cast, the film toys with the conventions and mostly transcends the limitations." more... |
B |
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano |
"...manages to toy with cliché while avoiding it entirely" more... |
B |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...disappointingly strip-mines the very fatigued comic hit-man genre to diminishing returns." more... |
C |
New York Times
Manohla Dargis" |
"...an amusing trifle..." more... |
B- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"In Bruges has its dark moments, but there's amount of humor sprinkled throughout, occasionally in unexpected places." more... |
B- |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"The film represents one of the few completely successful comic treatments of hit men in movies, usually a sour subject." more... |
B |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...thoroughly engaging..." more... |
B |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...easily one of the best debut feature films in recent memory." more... |
A- |
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