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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
The best reason to see 44 Inch Chest is simply to behold some of the finest actors working today, especially Winstone -- who can embody winsomeness and menace in one sweaty, unkempt glance -- and the woefully underemployed Dillane. Read full review
It's a stagy, half-entertaining, half-tedious acting competition between five excellent Englishmen. Read full review
It starts to feel less like a thriller than an actors' workshop. Read full review
It's an interesting spectacle, but not enough to carry a movie. Read full review
The film's action takes place mainly in one room, with the five characters posturing like angry macho men but slowly revealing their arrested development and juvenile ignorance of life in general and women in particular. Read full review
Ultimately, 44 Inch Chest has very little on its mind. Read full review
Structurally, 44 Inch Chest resembles "Reservoir Dogs"; but, without the added amusement of Tarantino's skewing of narrative time, it feels very much more like a direct adaptation of a stage play (which apparently it's not). The filmmakers do goose things up by playing with reality in the second half, but it all leads to a payoff that, while perfectly legitimate, feels limp. Read full review
Think of 44 Inch Chest as a piece of chamber music and you can compensate for the thinness of its story and the lack of visual distinction. Read full review
On the debit side, and it's a doozy, the picture's narrative trajectory fails to deliver a third act that takes the story anywhere of note except into a silly realm of cut-rate surrealism. Final reel ends not with the expected bang but with an almost inaudible whimper. Read full review
There's a difference between exposing misogyny and crassly exploiting it. Read full review