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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 20 Aug 2019

Ready or Not is the film everyone had hoped for: scathing, bloody, funny, and hugely entertaining…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 20 Aug 2019

So come for the crossbows, etc., and to watch Weaving’s star be born in real time; stay for the socio-economic lessons and sweet, sweet revenge…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 20 Aug 2019

Ready or Not can be described as the fusion of dark comedy with the Grand Guignol…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 20 Aug 2019

Despite its sometimes overwhelming sense of familiarity – including a conceit that feels lifted from last year’s Game Night, an impossible…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for The New York Times (9,847) on 20 Aug 2019

It’s Weaving who gives this blunt satire of class warfare a heart…

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By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Aug 2019

Only in its giddily gory finale does the outrageousness of the film's violence come close to matching that of its plot…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 20 Aug 2019

The dialogue is less than sparkling, and what passes for witty repartee is mainly a barrage of sarcastically delivered f-bombs and such insults…

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By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 20 Aug 2019

The problem with Ready or Not is that directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (“V/H/S”) don’t know what kind of movie they…

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By Meagan Navarro (17) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 20 Aug 2019

Clever mythos and well-crafted chills with an expertly-paced narrative makes for a deliciously entertaining, late summer crowd pleaser…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 19 Aug 2019

The charitable reading is that Ready Or Not understands how moneyed entitlement knows no gender — that the only way to break the arbitrary…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 19 Aug 2019

While the mocking tone mostly undermines any trenchant commentary, the strongest impression Ready or Not leaves, thanks to Weaving’s eye-rolling,…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 19 Aug 2019

Its pace is oddly arrhythmic and the tone is every which way but assured…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 16 Aug 2019

As games go, this one’s a little too easy to outfox, but it’s worth playing if you need a quick diversion, or if the chess moves of The…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 14 Aug 2019

The violence here is so over-the-top that it can lapse into comedy, prompting shocked laughter when certain characters are unexpectedly killed,…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 14 Aug 2019

If Ready or Not never quite feels like a cult classic in the making — the scares are soft, the imagery is familiar, and the ending is so…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 14 Aug 2019

Miscalculations aside, however, there’s a brutal wit and audacity to Ready or Not that makes it feel one-of-a-kind in an increasingly safe…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 14 Aug 2019

Although directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett do a good job executing tense suspense sequences, neither the satire nor the setup…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 14 Aug 2019

Ready has a fine time with its setting (the trappings of old money are much more appealing here than they were in Netflix's Murder Mystery),…

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By Bradley Warren (32) for The Playlist (3,871) on 29 Jul 2019

With the bar for breakout genre flicks being set so high in recent years, one can’t help but feel that Radio Silence is capable of something…

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