Kiss the Girls
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 3, 1997 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
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Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
10
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
David Klass, the screenwriter, gives Freeman and Judd more specific dialogue than is usual in thrillers; they sound as if they might actually be talking with each other and not simply advancing plot points. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
It features a pair of well-developed characters, the plot contains some clever twists and turns, the dialogue is reasonable, and director Gary Fleder (Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead) keeps the level of tension and intrigue high. Put together, all of that adds up to a worthwhile motion picture. Read full review
70
Washington PostRita Kempley
A solid second film from director Gary Fleder ("Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead"), it's sure to set pulses racing and spines tingling. Too bad it's at the expense of the dignity of young women everywhere. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesJack Mathews
Fleder has directed three-quarters of a terrific movie and one-quarter of pure Hollywood baloney. After carefully building up the suspense and tension through Cross and McTiernan's search, spiked with nail-biting encounters on both coasts, Fleder lets it trail off in anti-climax and banal violence. Read full review
60
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Replete with smart, capable characters and crimes so bizarre that they lend the film a suspiciously lurid nature, this tony suspenser is hampered by the presence of a villain who is all too obvious from the very beginning. Read full review
60
Washington PostDesson Thomson
The movie -- adapted from James Patterson's novel by David Klass -- operates on the crime-movie equivalent of automatic pilot. It takes off, flies and lands without much creative intervention. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Mr. Freeman projects a kindness, patience and canny intelligence that cut against the movie's fast pace and pumped-up shock effects. His performance is so measured it makes you want to believe in the movie much more than its gimmicky jerry-built plot ever permits. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Stack
For Morgan Freeman ("Seven") fans, it's a chance to see a great actor save a movie from itself. Read full review
50
San Francisco ExaminerBarbara Shulgasser
Director Gary Fleder seems to be trying for the mood and atmosphere of "Seven," another Freeman film about murder and police work, but this movie isn't as stylish and the script by David Klass, based on the James Patterson novel, doesn't really hang together. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Sensitive acting by Morgan Freeman and stylish directing by Gary Fleder can't overcome the bottom-line pointlessness of the movie's melodramatic material, which never achieves the dark resonance that helped "The Silence of the Lambs" get under the skin of many moviegoers. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Kiss the Girls is a fake psychological thriller that turns into a garishly schlocky and implausible bogeyman hunt. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Fleder delivers the requisite shocks, and his direction is brisk, efficient and occasionally stylish; Judd and Freeman both give more than the material demands. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleRussell Smith
It's diverting enough, and intermittently suspenseful, but also strangely empty and decadent in a way that truly merits that overused term. Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Freeman and Judd are fine, as could be expected, but their pairing deserves a better movie -- not one with a cheap twist ending that will easily be spotted by anyone who's studied the complex machinations of any episode of Murder, She Wrote. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Here's the kind of movie thriller that can make you scream (in annoyance) and bite your nails (to pass the time) and sit on the edge of your seat (ready to bolt the theatre). Read full review
20
Dallas ObserverRobert Wilonsky
A movie that leaves you wondering what the fuss was all about when its end credits appear; it's a mish-mash of a dozen other, better films ground up and watered down--Seven, Silence of the Lambs, and Manhunter, to name a few of the usual suspects. Read full review
10
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Misguided attempts at political correctness make this serial-killer movie stupid instead of just dull. Read full review
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