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

  • 90
    Village Voice |

    Up to now, writer-director Neil Marshall has specialized in horror movies (Dog Soldiers, The Descent), but here, he imagines and communicates a remote world with terrific energy and a passion for detail. Read full review

  • 80
    Salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir

    Centurion has its moments of manly cornpone camaraderie and certainly isn't blazingly original, but it offers riveting storytelling, gorgeous cinematography and scenery, loads of gore, and a politically complicated history lesson. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Betsy Sharkey

    Fast-moving, epic-on-a-shoestring tale of one Roman soldier's fight that is by turns heroic, fearsome, funny, fateful and, oh, so brutal, with swords hacking off heads at every turn. Read full review

  • 80
    Variety | Leslie Felperin

    "Doomsday," horror-trained British helmer Neil Marshall flexes strong action muscles and carves copious flesh here, creating the sort of broadsword-based bedlam that will thrill fans of ancient martial movies. Read full review

  • 75
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    Marshall, who helmed the underrated horror film, "The Descent," has a flair for the visual. Some of the mountainscapes, captured by use of a helicopter, are nothing short of spectacular. Read full review

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly |

    The plot's pretty thin -- even for a gladiator movie. Fortunately, when it comes to crunchy impalings and messy arterial geysers, Marshall's a maestro. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter | John DeFore

    Centurion delivers some large-scale action but plays almost like a Roman-era Western in its depiction of a few soldiers trying to get home alive after the slaughter of their comrades. Read full review

  • 70
    Movieline | Michelle Orange

    If you're like me, and you find yourself retreating to a safe place in your mind whenever human beings are being graphically decapitated on screen, you'll spend the majority of Centurion, horror maestro (The Descent) Neil Marshall's Roman bloodbath, on psychological lockdown. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    The real message: Life's ultimate pleasure lies in extreme fighting - to the death. Read full review

  • 63
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    The profanity is delightful. And the general atmosphere is grim. The movie just isn't terribly inspired. Read full review

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