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By Becky Suter (22) for TheShiznit.co.uk (506) on 10 Jul 2016

To a certain extent it does work, at times being both mildly thrilling and outlandish, but is never enough of one or the other to really stick…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 30 Jun 2016

Trying to explain what happens in CRIMINAL is bad enough -- you run up against all the things that make no sense -- but then there's the clumsy,…

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By Edmund Lee (132) for South China Morning Post (665) on 30 May 2016

It is ironic that Criminal - which features a maverick neuroscientist character and spins its nutty story around a pioneering brain operation…

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By Fernando Lopez (18) for La Nación (Argentina) (226) on 25 May 2016

The real mistery here is how such a talented cast accepted to appear in such a terrible movie. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Emiliano Basile (38) for EscribiendoCine (248) on 24 May 2016

In Criminal, Luc Besson manages to bring back Kevin Costner and turn him into the action hero he was born to be. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Ezequiel Boetti (37) for Otroscines.com (322) on 24 May 2016

Costner, Jones and Oldman give performances that bring the spirit of the genre back to it's roots, somethign modern films seem to have forgotten…

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By Luke Buckmaster (275) for The Daily Review/Crikey (197) on 19 May 2016

Executed with a retro, gung-ho, deadpan panache, our leading man grunting and groaning like Liam Neeson caught in a bind, Criminal is a throwback…

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By Paul Byrnes (441) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 17 May 2016

It's lazy, corrupt and sleazy filmmaking, the kind of film that's killing the business…

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By John Nugent (191) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 10 May 2016

A preposterous premise that never makes sense. A tedious thriller that offers no thrills. An A-list cast reduced to C-list material…

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By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 01 May 2016

Allows us to experience with giddy vicariousness a brutal psychopath wreaking havoc on bad guys for all the right reasons…

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By John Hanlon (483) for John Hanlon Reviews (327) on 30 Apr 2016

An all-star cast and an intriguing premise are wasted in a flawed thriller that offers one unbelievable plot twist after another…

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By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 Apr 2016

Costner, in full badass mode, makes this crackpot premise work…

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By Bruce Diones (105) for New Yorker (1,403) on 24 Apr 2016

The movie is a little more fun than it has any right to be, thanks to its super-serious cast (including Tommy Lee Jones, Ryan Reynolds, Gary…

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By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 21 Apr 2016

The script by Douglas Cook and David Weisberg becomes more preposterous by the minute, but entertainingly so, and director Ariel Vroman has…

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By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 20 Apr 2016

The phrase millionaire anarchist should be a clue as to what the story is about - mainly, a sloppy and forgettable mix of equal parts contrivance…

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By Sam Watermeier (59) for NUVO Newsweekly (453) on 20 Apr 2016

It feels like an action thriller straight out of the '90s. And for the most part, its stars of yesteryear deliver the goods…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 20 Apr 2016

In any other universe, Jerico's story would be ludicrous…

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By Kimberley Jones (866) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 20 Apr 2016

Criminal is a perfectly passable thriller, if you’re cool with no one here passing as an actual human being…

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By Peter Suderman (13) for Vox (725) on 20 Apr 2016

Criminal isn't a very good to begin with. It also wastes a solid cast…

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By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 20 Apr 2016

All the ingredients are there for a pleasant pander to grumpy old white men: the craggy actors, the foreign bad guys wielding confusing technology,…

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