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Metascore®54 out of 100 | Mixed or average reviews

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

  • 75
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    The film is worthwhile primarily for the fun, breezy first hour. After that, it's a case of watching to find out how things turn out. Read full review

  • 70
    Village Voice | Scott Foundas

    Whereas most of the injustices suffered by "Nanny's" nanny are of the skin-deep variety, the hopelessly reductive Fierce People ups the ante. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Ronnie Scheib

    Whenever Sutherland comes on scene, any inadequacies in the film's depiction of the well-to-do become irrelevant. Read full review

  • 67
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Staff (Not credited)

    Fierce People's first hour is dominated by brittle social satire, but in its third act, the film takes a jarring turn toward tremblingly sincere melodrama it can't pull off. Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    When F. Scott Fitzgerald remarked that the rich “are different from you and me,” he might have been thinking of someone like the moody billionaire from Fierce People. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Tribune | Tasha Robinson

    The idea that rich people are an alien tribe is just one of many that get lost in Wittenborn’s distracted script. Instead of exploring the concept, he throws out random incidents until he hits one that sends the film into a dark, grotesque spiral. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Robert Abele

    Dunne and Wittenborn, who adapted his book, work too hard at stressing just how ruthless the unspoken standards of the stinking rich can be, leading to a story-pivoting act of brutality toward Finn that careens the movie into a tonal wilderness that it never recovers from. Read full review

Avg. Fan Rating:
Average Rating = 3.7 out of 5

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