Dragged Across Concrete
Summit Entertainment | Release Date: March 22, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
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Mixed or average reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
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Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyMar 24, 2019
It’s a cliché to say that they don’t make movies like this anymore — nasty, nihilistic, nicotine-stained ‘70s death trips. But thank goodness that Zahler’s doing everything in his power to prove that cliché wrong. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineChuck BowenMar 21, 2019
With his latest, S. Craig Zahler doubles down on the best and worst elements of the pulp film. Read full review
83
IndieWireMichael NordineSep 3, 2018
Dragged Across Concrete may be a hard movie to love, but it’s a much harder one not to respect and even admire. Read full review
80
CineVueAlasdair BaymanApr 19, 2019
Dragged Across Concrete is a unique take on ultraviolence in an age whether the production of films is becoming increasingly polarising. Imbued with a particular stand out performance by Gibson breathes life into Zahler’s mature approach to genre filmmaking. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawApr 17, 2019
This is a long film, but there is something so horribly compelling about its unhurried slouch towards the precipice. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerMar 20, 2019
Dragged Across Concrete is a nihilist's morality tale. In the end, Zahler suggests, there's the dead, the innocent, and those smart enough to know that running is the only path out; and even then, there's a lot of innocence on that pile of corpses. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoMar 22, 2019
The result is a film that often feels like Zahler’s most assured to date. Self-indulgent? Oh yeah. A provocation? You bet. But it’s difficult to ignore the craftsmanship and performances in Dragged Across Concrete simply because you don’t like some of its darker themes or feel like it’s too long. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Mar 20, 2019
This is an ugly, borderline vile piece of work. Thing is, it’s also been made with craft, wit, and a frankly exhilarating disregard for how films like this are supposed to operate, how they usually sound and move. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinMar 24, 2019
I’ll see anything Zahler does because I was weaned on the same junk he was and find his mix of amateurism and genre smarts appealing. That’s not a sign of my integrity — a man’s gotta watch what a man’s gotta watch — but of my fundamental laziness and corruption. I hate that I can settle for Dragged Across Concrete. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangMar 21, 2019
Dragged Across Concrete has been made with enough skill and moody, meticulous craftsmanship — another Zahler signature — to earn its own measure of tolerance, or at least some closer scrutiny. Read full review
70
Rolling StoneDavid FearMar 20, 2019
Dragged Across Concrete is apt to send crime-film fanatics, especially ones who prefer their pulp nasty, brutish and incredibly long, into frothing fits of glee. For other folks, the title will double as an apt description experience of watching it. Read full review
70
VarietyGuy LodgeSep 3, 2018
At a whopping 158 minutes, “Concrete’s” sleek, languorous anatomy of a heist represents the filmmaker’s most extreme exercise yet in painstaking genre deceleration, sparked as ever by the tangy movie-movie vernacular of his writing, the crunchy metal-on-asphalt dynamism of his craftsmanship, and the back-from-the-brink reanimation of his stars. Read full review
67
The Film StageLeonardo GoiSep 4, 2018
Where the new entry lacks in bloodshed and bone-splintering violence, it still confirms Zahler’s penchant for complicated characters, and conjures up a bad cops action movie which, despite blips in tension and a second half far superior to the first, crystallizes Zahler’s as a key name to watch for lovers of the genre. Read full review
63
Washington PostPat PaduaMar 19, 2019
Dragged Across Concrete may not be the kind of movie you’d expect to emerge from such inspiration, yet the impassioned energy of those composers is echoed in Zahler’s feverish yet stubbornly patient approach to storytelling. Read full review
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