Black Friday
Release Date: February 9, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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100
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday is a superb and devastating piece of cinema that with justification can be compared favorably to Gillo Pontocorvo's classic "The Battle of Algiers" in its dispassionate yet sweeping journalistic inquiry into cataclysmic social and political events. Read full review
80
The New York TimesMatt Zoller Seitz
Epic and raw, Black Friday is cut from the same bloody cloth as "Salvador" and "Munich." Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyDavid Chute
The movie would be all crisp surfaces without the internal combustion of Menon, as a man who bears down on familiar procedures in order to avoid being overwhelmed by his emotions. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Opening with the Mohandas Gandhi epigram "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind," it humanizes the bombers without excusing their actions. Read full review
60
VarietyDerek Elley
Despite its large cast and complex criss-crossing from past to present, the movie rarely catches fire as an involving human drama. Read full review
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