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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 88
    TV Guide |

    Together Cates and Hammond take a thrill-a-minute trip through the San Francisco underworld and along the way develop one of the 1980s' more interesting cinematic buddy pairings. Read full review

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    What makes the movie special is how it's made. Nolte and Murphy are good, and their dialogue is good, too - quirky and funny. Read full review

  • 80
    Empire |

    That the fact they come to appreciate one other, the grudging respect of a million clichs, feels so satisfyingly, shows just how successful the film is. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Janet Maslin

    Walter Hill, the director of such beautiful but stilted tough guy movies as ''The Warriors'' and ''The Long Riders,'' has attempted something very different in 48 Hours a male-buddy action film that's positively witty and warm-hearted compared with his other work. Read full review

  • 75
    The Globe and Mail (Toronto) | Jay Scott

    A quick and clever thriller as nasty as a piece of shrapnel snapping the sound barrier, 48 Hrs. is as violent as it is funny. It is very funny. [03 Dec 1982] Read full review

  • 70
    Variety |

    48Hrs. is a very efficient action entertainment which serves as a showy motion picture debut for Eddie Murphy. Read full review

  • 70
    Chicago Reader | Dave Kehr

    The film is still an entertaining and invigorating thriller, with a structure and some curious sexual overtones that suggest Howard Hawks's "A Girl in Every Port." Read full review

  • 40
    Time | Richard Schickel

    Neither jokes nor fast, flashy action can completely distract audiences from the failure to establish an authentic, rather than a purely conventional connection between Nolte and Murphy. Read full review

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