Sleuth
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: October 12, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
14
Negative:
5
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38
PremiereGlenn Kenny
This is a perhaps even more misbegotten remake than the Farrelly Brothers' update of "The Heartbreak Kid." Read full review
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Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Art-directed within an inch of its life, Sleuth has the smirky gloss of a project that everyone involved with thinks is terribly good, and terribly clever. These people - Branagh, Pinter, Law and the usually great Caine (even in bad stuff) - are laboring under an epic misconception. Sleuth is just terrible. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
No doubt the list of talent involved in this remake sounded great, but the project hasn't been thought through as anything more than an arch exercise in style. And even in that trifling end, it fails utterly. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
The result is that what was once insignificant is now insufferable. Read full review
30
TimeRichard Corliss
If you consider what the exalted quartet of Branagh, Pinter, Caine and Law might have done with the project, and what they did to it, Sleuth has to be the worst prestige movie of the year. Read full review
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