Savages
Universal Pictures | Release Date: July 6, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
Positive:
24
Mixed:
10
Negative:
7
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Slant MagazineJesse CataldoJul 5, 2012
While his classic hyperbolic visual style is back in force, Stone can't bother to muster any of his usual righteous anger, instead mischanneling his discontent into a kind of zen acceptance of these perpetually tiresome main characters. Read full review
30
The New YorkerDavid DenbyJul 19, 2012
If the rest of the movie had been on Travolta's level of sly knowingness, it might have been a hip classic, rather than what it is -- a summertime debauch. [23 July 2012, p. 81]
25
ObserverRex ReedJul 11, 2012
These are neither good people nor interesting savages, and they're not worth caring about. Neither is the movie. Read full review
25
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallJul 4, 2012
An amoral mosaic of carnage and carnality. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezJul 3, 2012
Aggressively, defiantly stupid. Read full review
20
The GuardianPeter BradshawSep 21, 2012
Sadly, Savages plays up to Stone's worst tendencies: machismo, bombast and self-indulgence, and the factor that could conceivably have made this movie tolerable – humour – is off the menu. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleAmy BiancolliJul 5, 2012
So. What part of this is boring? All of it. Read full review
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