Red State
SModcast Pictures | Release Date: October 19, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
6
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezSep 22, 2011
Red State is as profane and anti-establishment as any of his other films, but the stakes are infinitely higher this time: This Kevin Smith movie has an astonishing body count. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinSep 21, 2011
Red State is gloriously unencumbered by fidelity to genre conventions, which lends it a thrilling element of unpredictability even when the action frequently grows shrill and heavy-handed. Read full review
60
EmpireStaff (Not credited)Sep 26, 2011
This is one of those movies that's "interesting" rather than ˜"good". Smith has so much solid material to deliver that it's a shame the package is so sloppily wrapped. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthySep 17, 2011
Red State is cleverly contrarian enough to get a rise out of almost any audience. Read full review
50
SalonAndrew O'HehirOct 20, 2011
It's a charming if conspicuously unfinished film, a half-riotous, half-idiotic send-up of the teen horror genre with a vaguely hip political twist. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. ScottSep 22, 2011
For all its boisterous profanity and splattery violence, the film is more of a weary sigh than a sputtering volley of indignation. Read full review
40
MovielineAlison WillmoreSep 24, 2011
Smith isn't up to doing anything other than setting up caricatures and then knocking them down. Read full review
40
VarietyJustin ChangSep 17, 2011
This sloppily constructed horror-thriller lacks the satirical bite and action chops to skewer extreme-right-wing zealots with the gusto Smith clearly feels they deserve, instead evincing the verbal incontinence and slack tension that have long dogged the writer-director's work. Read full review
20
Boxoffice MagazineNick SchagerSep 30, 2011
Ugly characterizations and simplistic preachiness negate the terror in Red State - a film that eventually proves horrific in ways unintended by writer/director Kevin Smith. Read full review
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