New Line Cinema | Release Date: November 6, 1996 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2
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Stupid and exploitive, the movie is loaded with cartoonish gunplay, car chases and strange allusions to The Godfather. This is an offer you'll gladly refuse. [06 Nov 1996, p.5D]
38
If Set It Off had concentrated on easy thrills like that well-filmed drive-through-the-walls robbery climax, it might have qualified as pulpy entertainment. Instead, it's that deadliest of beasts: an exploitation movie with pretensions to social significance. [06 Nov 1996, p.1]