Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
Contraband, while often grungy and far-fetched, does keep you watching. And in January, that's recommendation enough. Read full review
It's a genre film, not great art, though there's a good joke about art - a pricey piece of action painting, appropriately enough - but it's a thoroughly satisfying entertainment, and, in this season of lowered expectations, a nice surprise. Read full review
I don't know that a lot of Contraband makes sense. But I'm not sure that it has to. The director Baltasar Kormákur carries the movie off with efficiency, brutality, and humor. Read full review
The lead role of a working class former smuggler who dirties his hands again to save his family fits Mark Wahlberg like a glove. Read full review
Nothing about it lingers, not even the sulfuric stench of a bum scene or a particularly hammy performance. Read full review
Wahlberg could sleepwalk through this role, and does. See this movie and you'll surely follow his lead. Read full review
Let's start by admitting three things: that Contraband is a ridiculous movie, that it wasn't meant to be a ridiculous movie, and that it's an enjoyable movie. One of the things that makes it enjoyable is that it's so ridiculous. Read full review
Contraband has a few moments of tension, but it adheres to a predictable heist formula hardly worth trafficking in. Read full review
A big comedown from "The Fighter," Contraband finds Wahlberg in default mode: With his Popeye biceps and broody stares, the actor can do a character like Chris without even thinking about it - and that's what he does here. Read full review
Only Wahlberg rises above the muck; everything else here feels buried in concrete. Read full review
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The Funky Bunch refused to help on this one. Read full review