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By Amon Warmann (68) for CineVue (2,163) on 07 Jan 2019

The strong performances of the cast do well to elevate The Samaritan, but there's not much more to take away from this mildly entertaining…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 25 Jul 2013

The Samaritan benefits substantially from the inclusion of a shocking turn in the narrative at around the halfway point…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 27 May 2012

What could have been an intriguing character study about redemption turns into an absurd series of eye-rolling plot twists that makes it impossible…

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By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 May 2012

The Samaritan treads a fine line between film-noir moodiness and crime-thriller triteness, mostly settling for the latter…

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By Robert Levin (797) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 17 May 2012

The experience of watching Samuel L. Jackson actually act is the only real pleasure to be gleaned from the movie…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 17 May 2012

It's not honest with its people, or its plot. And the only ones it really cheats are audience members…

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By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 17 May 2012

Even the spirited Ruth Negga can't lift this by-the-numbers neo-noir out of its dull parboiled rut…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for New York Times (5,786) on 17 May 2012

His (Jackson) doleful revenant is in almost every scene, and this hardworking actor seems to know that the film around him should be a light-footed…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 17 May 2012

A would-be piece of pulp fiction about a parolee trying to go straight, The Samaritan proves that even Samuel L. Jackson can be boring…

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By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 16 May 2012

An odd stylistic mash-up, the movie never quite coheres, in part because the characters are so thin that the style doesn't have much to cohere to…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 16 May 2012

About a third of the way along, there's a shocking revelation that definitely packs a punch…

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By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 16 May 2012

The Samaritan doesn't wind up feeling like a con, exactly, but it has just enough promise to leave viewers feeling ripped off when it comes up short…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 16 May 2012

The most charitable approach to this unfortunate diversion in Jackson's career would be to pretend it never happened…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 16 May 2012

Svelte enough in its reassembling of familiar elements to be, for a while, as comfortably pleasant as sipping on what once used to be your…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 16 May 2012

It's thoroughly mediocre, which feels like such a disappointment when one considers that the script's ingredients include murder, deception,…

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By Linda Barnard (586) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 16 May 2012

Sets itself up as a crime thriller yet fails to deliver more than a twinge of surprise as it meanders toward a flaccid endgame swindle…

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By Sam Adams (514) for AV Club (2,778) on 16 May 2012

It's difficult to describe The Samaritan, in which Samuel L…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 16 May 2012

The Samaritan isn't a great noir, but it's true to the tradition and gives Samuel L. Jackson one of his best recent roles…

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By Kathleen Murphy (78) for MSN Movies (470) on 15 May 2012

The theme's familiar, but The Samaritan's stylish palette -- the colors of corruption and despair -- paints it new…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 15 May 2012

goes from mechanical to (unintentionally) hilarious, stopping frequently at the cliché shop along the way…

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