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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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
It's like "Deathtrap" crossed with "Cribs" as staged by Stanley Kubrick. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Caine, who has never been much for the stage, is a superb screen actor, so good his master classes on acting for the camera are on DVD. Here, dry and clipped, biting and savage, he goes for the kill. Read full review
75
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
A pretty good movie. It just isn't a very good "Sleuth," exactly. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
I think the movie works best if you know the original and have a taste for goofy revisionism. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterRay Bennett
Despite top-flight acting from Michael Caine and Jude Law, it loses its grip in the third act and let's the air out of what might have been a memorably gripping film. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Sleuth is well acted, and directed by Branagh with chilly, distant ingenuity. It has a certain edge and daring, or more to the point it pretends to. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
Language this lethal has all but disappeared from the movies, and it's an unmitigated pleasure to observe Caine and Law attack it with such ferocity. Sleuth is nasty fun. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
The 1972 movie was better paced and presented a superior story but this one has its own pleasures. It's an interesting failure - a film that works more successfully as a study of technique and writing than as a motion picture. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
While the entire premise of Sleuth is a gimmick, having Michael Caine and Jude Law remake the 1972 adaptation of Anthony Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play heightens the gimmick quotient. Read full review
63
New York PostKyle Smith
Just when things should be getting exciting and complex, they become repetitive and predictable. Subtext becomes hint becomes statement becomes declaration. For once, Pinter is a little too easy to understand. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Caine and Law may not be playing human beings, but Pinter’s sense of humor is at least more interesting than Shaffer’s. Caine in particular appears to enjoy honing his cold-eyed stare. Read full review
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