Den of Thieves
Concorde Filmverleih | Release Date: January 19, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
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Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
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8
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13
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergJan 18, 2018
The film is generous with action and twists, even if some don’t track. For January, a month Hollywood reserves for dogs, this is an admirably weird movie. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanJan 18, 2018
Den of Thieves is better at set-up than follow-through. The movie is clever enough, until it cheats. It tries to fill in its characters, until reducing them to plot devices. Read full review
58
The PlaylistWill AshtonJan 19, 2018
Gudegast does provide a good amount of grimy atmosphere to his L.A. setting, and the action sequences keep you involved even as the running time starts to get gruelling. But, at 140 minutes, Den of Thieves gets too caught up in its own indulgences, and that’s a crime it can’t escape. Read full review
50
IGNSimon ThompsonJan 18, 2018
Clichés combined with poor dialogue and badly drawn characters that lack dimension bog down the heist movie Den of Thieves, which fails to sustain, or generate, any real tension. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineDerek SmithJan 18, 2018
Den of Thieves displays a reverence for the taut and moody tension-building tactics of Michael Mann's Heat, but without a single compelling character or backstory to speak of, it's unable to bring even a modicum of emotional resonance to action. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJan 18, 2018
What might have been a slick, smash-mouth, fast-paced piece of entertainment clocking in at 90 or 100 minutes somehow turns into a bloated, half-baked pie that drags on for 2 hours and 20 minutes. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJan 17, 2018
I can’t say it wasn’t interesting to sit through, but Thieves never rises above a seriously long-winded B-movie, a shoot-em-up in which no matter how graphic the violence that the characters mete out and witness, nobody ever lets you forget they’re playing cops and robbers. Read full review
42
IndieWireJude DryJan 20, 2018
Save for a few clever twists and winning performances from O’Shea Jackson Jr. and 50 Cent (née Curtis Jackson), Den of Thieves is the kind of bloated crime thriller that could have been made in any decade — which is not to call it timeless so much as way past its time. Read full review
41
Paste MagazineDom SinacolaJan 18, 2018
Den of Thieves is such a dumb misunderstanding of the genres in which it plays, such a loud, interminable shart of unmitigated machismo, such a heavy-handed rip-off of Heat and The Usual Suspects and even Ocean’s Eleven (and maybe even The Fast and the Furious, but for scumbags) that it feels anachronistic on arrival, the kind of melodramatic, pulpy studio action flick that doesn’t get made anymore because it shouldn’t. Read full review
40
EmpireJames WhiteFeb 5, 2018
Slick and solid in moments, Den Of Thieves disappoints with its reliance on easy plotting and gruff, overcooked acting. One for Butler completists only. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisJan 31, 2018
Although it has the smell of self-importance, like a Michael Cimino movie on steroids, Den of Thieves ultimately fools no one. It’s all about the guns. Read full review
40
Village VoiceDanny KingJan 20, 2018
Between the candy of the Federal Reserve robbery itself — which features a marvelous running bit about the process of delivering Chinese food in a government-surveilled building — and the merry nonsense of Butler chugging Pepto-Bismol during a strategy session, Den of Thieves earns a nice spot in the watch-forty-minutes-on-a-rainy-day canon. Read full review
40
Time OutZachary ShevichJan 18, 2018
This is poor-man's action cinema with zero characterization. Read full review
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