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By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 18 Mar 2015

This is a watchable thriller with enough all-action set pieces to carry you along, particularly a lengthy sequence in the Barcelona bullring…

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By Tom Huddleston (600) for Time Out London (344) on 17 Mar 2015

Thanks to ‘Taken’ director Pierre Morel, this too often feels like just another slice of brainless Eurotrash, packed with saw-it-coming…

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By Staci Layne Wilson (667) for AtHomeInHollywood.com (165) on 17 Mar 2015

While one can certainly see Penn's attraction to a globe-trotting, gun-toting, hard-loving role such as this, one also can't help but wonder…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Mar 2015

Penn’s vanity — both in the way he shows off his bod and in the way he drives home the nobility of the once-wayward Terrier — is either…

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By James Mottram (656) for Total Film (3,532) on 16 Mar 2015

A genuine disappointment, given the talent involved, and a rare misstep for Penn, who can’t save this moribund vanity project from flatlining…

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By James Dyer (59) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 16 Mar 2015

Sub-Ludlum plotting but stylishly executed, this offers a fun night out but is far from a nailed-on franchise-starter…

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By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 16 Mar 2015

A cut above pure exploitation, The Gunman adds a dose of humanitarian medicine to the Taken formula…

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By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Mar 2015

The lack of any visual ingenuity, reflexivity, or awareness of genre tropes diminishes the intermittent pleasures of the action's slightly…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 14 Mar 2015

If the matador got gored, this would be a marginally better movie, but Sean Penn's g.f…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 12 Mar 2015

Sean Penn doesn’t make movies very often these days. So when he does, you go in with certain expectations…

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By David James (58) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 07 Mar 2015

The Gunman is nothing more than Sean Penn's mid-life crisis vanity project, and it isn't worth the price of admission…

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By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen International (2,241) on 06 Mar 2015

A muddled bid for political relevance has led the film-makers to drag on The Gunman’s primary mission: to entertain…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 06 Mar 2015

It’s one thing to bring a gravelly gravitas to characters like this, but Penn suffers and glowers so much that it weighs down the material…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 06 Mar 2015

Penn’s veiny, sweat-glazed biceps are the most objectively impressive feature of this rote, humorless thriller, a distinctly unconvincing…

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By Leslie Felperin (768) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 06 Mar 2015

Ripe, borderline hammy turns from Javier Bardem, Ray Winstone, Idris Elba and Mark Rylance add some spice…

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