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

  • 83
    The Onion A.V. Club | Noel Murray

    For all Dead Man's Shoes' well-paced, well-observed boondocks melodrama, its premise seems simultaneously slender and overheated. Read full review

  • 75
    New York Daily News | Jami Bernard

    This is no simplistic vigilante movie. Like Park Chan-wook's "Vengeance" trilogy, it explores the nature of the beast of revenge, leaving the audience in a sweat of dread. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times |

    The always fantastic Paddy Considine evokes both sensitivity and explosiveness. Read full review

  • 63
    New York Post | Lou Lumenick

    Very slowly builds to a powerful climax for this arty cross between "Straw Dogs" and "First Blood." Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The imagery is exotically grungy and jumbled by flashback, but in the end, the picture's more pulp than juice. Read full review

  • 40
    The Hollywood Reporter | Ray Bennett

    The film is filled with deeply unpleasant and stupid people whose vapid speech is largely incomprehensible due to thick regional accents. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety | Derek Elley

    Film plays as a quirky Brit riff on everything from U.S. slasher pics to revenge oaters but without Meadows' usual psychological complexity. Read full review

  • 40
    Village Voice |

    Dead Man's Shoes is all about revenge, but in trying to be one of those serious revenge films that questions violence while indulging in it, it manages to keep virtually all the characters unsympathetic and uninteresting. Read full review

  • 30
    L.A. Weekly | Ella Taylor

    Like so many movies of its kind, Dead Man's Shoes gets hopelessly lost in vicious process, and so loses all sight of anything you might optimistically call insight. Read full review

  • 25
    Chicago Tribune |

    There are flashes of grim humor interspersed with the murders, but not enough wit to elevate this movie beyond its primary identity: grisly revenge fantasy. Read full review

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