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

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Mamet regulars Ricky Jay and Joe Mantegna blend well with Mamet newbie Tim Allen, a treat as a spoiled-rotten aging Hollywood action star. Read full review

  • 80
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    As the heart and soul of the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor once again impresses. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Carina Chocano

    Ejiofor brings a calm magnetism and a beatific serenity to his roles that have the effect of knocking you flat -- there's something about this guy that's messianic. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    A satisfying, unexpectedly involving B-movie that owes as much to old Hollywood as to Greek tragedy. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe Stein

    Entertaining in a pulpy kind of way, like the fight films of the 1930s and '40s, and more accessible than most of Mamet's movies. Read full review

  • 75
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Mamet is on his game, and that is a sight to see. No con. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    It never really pulls itself together into the convincing, focused drama it promises, yet it kept me involved right up until the final scenes, which piled on developments almost recklessly. Read full review

  • 75
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    It's certainly not Mamet's signature rapid-fire dialogue, but it's an intriguing and engrossing departure. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    What is memorable is the film's portrait of a man of honor in a sleazy world, possibly a metaphor for the struggle of the artist to stay honorable in a world of backbiting, betrayal and hunger for easy money. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    An absorbing and colorful, if not particularly convincing, excursion into a demi-monde of fighters, scammers, promoters and self-styled modern samurai, Redbelt gives the impression of Mamet coyly toying with the idea of making a populist little-man-against-the-system sports melodrama without actually attempting to create a film for the masses. Read full review

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