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

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    A mercilessly convoluted version of a Twister, that genre in which the plot whacks us as if it's taking batting practice. I will not hint at anything that happens. I will simply observe that it's all entertaining. Read full review

  • 63
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    A smart aleck-y kidnapping caper that whooshes around to a thumping electronic beat. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Ronnie Scheib

    Uneven but enjoyably titillating black comedy should elate Rickman fans while pleasing aficionados of extra-flakey caper flicks. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    Guy Ritchie made a name for himself with scuzz, but even his shtick has exceeded its sell-by date. Nobel Son goes further, crossing the contortions of "The Usual Suspects" with the shallowness of certain intellectual family melodramas. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times |

    Shows strains of stylistic overkill with egregious flash-edit tricks and sped-up camera moves, while the signal-flare plotting indicates that perhaps a bit more time could have been taken on the screenplay. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Philip Kennicott

    It's all wildly implausible and occasionally fun, but it could be so much better if director Randall Miller (who co-wrote the screenplay) had thrown in a little more character development and excised a half-dozen crazy plot twists. Read full review

  • 25
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Randall Miller (Bottle Shock), appears to be trying to cross a bad Elmore Leonard thriller with a bad indie-festival family-angst comedy. He gives us the worst of both worlds. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe Stein

    A dreary little thriller that irritates more than it thrills. Read full review

  • 20
    Austin Chronicle |

    Even the dependable Rickman can't find his footing here. As he lamely hams it up, you can see him trying to rally himself and then deciding it's not worth the effort. Read full review

  • 20
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    An aggressively noisy exercise in style over substance about nasty people doing nasty things to one another in (sigh) Southern California. Read full review

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