Dead Man's Shoes
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: May 12, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
4
Negative:
3
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83
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
For all Dead Man's Shoes' well-paced, well-observed boondocks melodrama, its premise seems simultaneously slender and overheated. Read full review
80
Film ThreatFelix Vasques Jr.
An original, complex, and utterly gruesome revenge parable, and never portrays its characters as black and white. Considine handles his performance like a pro, and only adds to the pure skill behind it. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
This is no simplistic vigilante movie. Like Park Chan-wook's "Vengeance" trilogy, it explores the nature of the beast of revenge, leaving the audience in a sweat of dread. Read full review
70
The New York TimesLaura Kern
The always fantastic Paddy Considine evokes both sensitivity and explosiveness. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
Meadows loses control as he goes along, veering into assorted noodling and sacrificing the knife's-edge clarity of the early going for something arty and artificial. Read full review
63
New York PostLou Lumenick
Very slowly builds to a powerful climax for this arty cross between "Straw Dogs" and "First Blood." Read full review
63
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Though the story is formulaic, the bleakly naturalistic performances give it an uncomfortable sting. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
The imagery is exotically grungy and jumbled by flashback, but in the end, the picture's more pulp than juice. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterRay Bennett
The film is filled with deeply unpleasant and stupid people whose vapid speech is largely incomprehensible due to thick regional accents. Read full review
40
VarietyDerek Elley
Film plays as a quirky Brit riff on everything from U.S. slasher pics to revenge oaters but without Meadows' usual psychological complexity. Read full review
40
Village VoiceLuke Y. Thompson
Dead Man's Shoes is all about revenge, but in trying to be one of those serious revenge films that questions violence while indulging in it, it manages to keep virtually all the characters unsympathetic and uninteresting. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
A shocking revelation near the end explains the soldier's nihilistic rage but simultaneously tears a gigantic hole in the plot, leaving little to admire but Considine's typically penetrating performance. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Like so many movies of its kind, Dead Man's Shoes gets hopelessly lost in vicious process, and so loses all sight of anything you might optimistically call insight. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneJessica Reaves
There are flashes of grim humor interspersed with the murders, but not enough wit to elevate this movie beyond its primary identity: grisly revenge fantasy. Read full review
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