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By Leonard Maltin (609) for leonardmaltin.com (584) on 05 Dec 2013

Director and co-writer Scott Cooper never finds a way to transform his working-class parable into a meaningful story in Out of the Furnace…

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By Jon Niccum (520) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 05 Dec 2013

The film plays like a meandering art-house piece until the seen-it-a-million-times finale, which offers up the kind of primal justice that…

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By Vincent Mancini (369) for FilmDrunk (362) on 05 Dec 2013

A sloppy, derivative downtrodden piece about broken down soldiers and shuttered factories that's basically Bad Springsteen Song: The Movie…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 05 Dec 2013

A film...at war with itself...the trappings of serious commentary on contemporary socio-economic issues simply do not sit happily on a narrative…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Dec 2013

The macho drama is nicely drawn for most of the movie, with a genuine sense of hard times in millennial America, though Cooper lets it drift…

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By Justin Craig (142) for FoxNews.com (142) on 05 Dec 2013

A potboiler with three incredible performances by Bale, Affleck and Harrelson, Out of the Furnace is a film with many superb parts that falls…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 05 Dec 2013

If you can get past one major misstep, it's an absorbing, credible melodrama…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 05 Dec 2013

Might feel too abrasive for some, but for those who enjoy their tales of revenge served cold, garnished with the death of the American Dream,…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for Associated Press (1,685) on 05 Dec 2013

Out of the Furnace'' is an earnestly crafted, passionately acted working-class drama rusted over by its noble intentions of steel-town sympathizing…

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By Josh Bell (1,421) for Las Vegas Weekly (1,340) on 05 Dec 2013

Cooper seems to want to make a profound statement about the hollowness of revenge or the struggles of the working class, but the movie has…

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By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 05 Dec 2013

Its rote characters invite none of our empathy or concern in a plot unencumbered by depth or surprises…

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By Barbara Vancheri (51) for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (258) on 05 Dec 2013

The parts are greater than the whole, and it's all so extreme that it feels like too much, but Mr…

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By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 05 Dec 2013

It has everything a viewer would expect when Hollywood goes blue-collar...But Furnace is saved by a couple of surprises and mostly by the performances…

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By Perri Nemiroff (375) for Shockya.com (657) on 04 Dec 2013

Despite stunning visuals, a satisfying score, and three all-in lead performances, Out of the Furnace is still bleak, lifeless and excruciatingly slow…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 04 Dec 2013

Other than some decent performances from Bale and Harrelson, this feels like it could have been executed better…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 04 Dec 2013

It's Bale, and his almost biblical quest for justice, who burns his way into your soul…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 04 Dec 2013

Like “The Deer Hunter” — from which it swipes its Keystone State milieu, its haunted veterans, and its self-endangerment metaphor —…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 04 Dec 2013

Like last year’s vaguely similar “Killing Them Softly,” “Furnace” reeks of '70s-inspired, downbeat, politically conscious genre filmmaking…

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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 04 Dec 2013

Unfortunately this film has none of their urgency or sense of control; for long stretches it just doesn't seem to have any idea what, exactly,…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 04 Dec 2013

As colorful as it and its people are, Cooper lets the brawling and the bigger-than-big performances get the better of him, and his story…

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