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The Bang Bang Club has generally received mixed reviews.
Review of The Bang Bang Club (2011)
By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 20 Apr 2011
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By Matt Singer (625) for IFC.com (108) on 21 Apr 2011
Review of The Bang Bang Club (2011)
By Norm Schrager (106) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 07 May 2011
Review of The Bang Bang Club (2011)
Review of The Bang Bang Club (2011)
Review of The Bang Bang Club (2011)
Review of The Bang Bang Club (2011)
Review of The Bang Bang Club (2011)
By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 04 May 2011
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The Bang Bang Club was released in 2011 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 131 reviews, giving The Bang Bang Club (2011) an average rating of 60%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 69%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 58%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with The Bang Bang Club than critics were.
With a score of 60%, The Bang Bang Club is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2011, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 2011 with similar scores include films like In Time, Wuthering Heights and Our Idiot Brother.
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