Johnny Mad Dog
"DIA" Productions GmbH & Co. KG | Release Date: January 21, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
3
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
EmpireNev PierceJan 18, 2011
Grubby and yet vital, it stays with you. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisJan 18, 2011
Basically, talented French director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire has too much style on his hands. His film isn't as amorally grandiose as "City of God." Nor does it achieve the hulking tragedy of "Gomorrah." Read full review
60
VarietyJustin ChangJan 18, 2011
There's no doubt Johnny Mad Dog means to leave the viewer with a visceral impression of its terrors, on that it largely succeeds. Whether that accomplishment deserves praise is more of an open question. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith UhlichJan 18, 2011
An hour and half of comparable barbarity follows-all of it monotonous, none of it enlightening. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla DargisJan 18, 2011
An assaultive fiction about Liberian child soldiers made with boys and girls who actually fought in that country's recent war, left me wrung out - furious, confused, deep in thought. Read full review
30
Village VoiceNick PinkertonJan 18, 2011
Sauvaire, hesitating between a protest picture and a glam-squalid imagist orgy, only succeeds in scattering human rubble across the screen. Read full review
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