Pawn Shop Chronicles
Anchor Bay Films | Release Date: July 12, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
26
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
1
Negative:
8
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJul 6, 2013
Wayne Kramer thankfully refuses to cloak his excessiveness in hedge-betting self-consciousness and the result is a gratifyingly disreputable B-movie blow out. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesGlenn WhippJul 10, 2013
Kramer, 10 years removed from his lone critical success, "The Cooler," and writer Adam Minarovich aren't exactly aping Tarantino, if only because they don't have the talent or inclination to aim that high. Read full review
38
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreJul 8, 2013
It’s coherent enough, but entirely too long and unpleasant when it could have been one brutishly edgy hoot after another. Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen HoldenJul 11, 2013
"Hee Haw” meets “Pulp Fiction” at the meth lab: That describes the style of Pawn Shop Chronicles, a hillbilly grindhouse yawp of a movie that belches in your face and leaves a sour stink. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJul 10, 2013
Despite its noteworthy cast who presumably had some time to fill between better gigs, this is the sort of instantly disposable B-movie effort that Quentin Tarantino would have chucked in the wastebasket after a first draft. Read full review
30
Village VoiceNick SchagerJul 9, 2013
Director Wayne Kramer (Running Scared, Crossing Over) makes plain his cartoon-comedy intentions early and often via comic-book-panel-style title cards. The presiding atmosphere of over-the-top zaniness, however, is of a broad, banal sort involving little people, rampant nudity, and quasi-religious nonsense. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiSep 9, 2014
The problem with Pawn Shop Chronicles is not the fact that it is a clone of "Pulp Fiction." The problem is that it is a lousy clone. Read full review
20
The DissolveNathan RabinJul 11, 2013
The film doesn’t feel like a fresh riff on familiar tropes so much as a bad cover of Pulp Fiction. Read full review
20
Time OutAndrew SchenkerJul 9, 2013
Only one gag (involving a town’s rival barbers) sticks; the rest is just whistlin’ Dixie. Read full review
16
The PlaylistGabe ToroJul 11, 2013
It’s all very first draft, with a layer of supernatural permeating the events that suggests added attempts to connect three wildly disparate storylines. Read full review
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