A History of Violence
New Line Cinema | Release Date: September 23, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
82
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 37 Critic Reviews
Positive:
33
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
A History of Violence is a hollow story from an empty graphic novel. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
This peculiarly predictable picture has been calculated, or miscalculated, to set up certain expectations, fulfill them, and then do the same thing again, thereby giving us a chance to see what's coming and, at least in theory, be shocked when it actually comes.
50
Dallas ObserverRobert Wilonsky
Sometimes junk is junk, no matter how fancy the platter upon which it's served. Which isn't to say A History of Violence is useless junk. It provides a few pleasures and a few giggles; it's a comedy, after all, an action movie in which things unfold at a deadpan pace. Read full review
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The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
This sort of investigation has been done so masterfully by Sam Peckinpah in "The Wild Bunch" and Oliver Stone in "Natural Born Killers" that, in a sternly utilitarian sense, we don't need Cronenberg. He is not, as far as I have seen, in their class. He proves it again in A History of Violence. Read full review
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