Straw Dogs
Screen Gems | Release Date: September 16, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
12
Negative:
9
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen ColeSep 15, 2011
The film has one sly, ominous touch Peckinpah would have liked. David is writing a script on the defence of Stalingrad, a battle that swallowed two million lives. Otherwise, the new version is a vigilante action film bereft of subtlety or restraint. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeySep 15, 2011
It fails as a gripping home-invasion thriller. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineJaime N. ChristleySep 15, 2011
Despite Lurie's part-time efforts to lend the film some sense of place, the impulse to hot-ify everything from Peckinpah's considerably more earthbound original ultimately outpaces his meager good intentions. Read full review
38
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreSep 15, 2011
An exploitation picture built on redneck cliches and big city liberal outrage, it's not all bad. But it is a pretty unpleasant wallow in the obvious. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleAmy BiancolliSep 15, 2011
Rod Lurie's heated but empty-headed remake re-creates the original's trudge toward savagery but can't re-create its social context - and doesn't bring anything new to the table. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsSep 15, 2011
The original was repulsive but impossible to shake. This remake is pure applause bait, which makes it barbaric in ways Peckinpah would never have dreamed. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsSep 15, 2011
It's miscast, barely functional in terms of technique, stupid and unnecessary. Other than that…. Read full review
20
Time OutKeith UhlichSep 20, 2011
This one barely musters a pulse. Read full review
12
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisSep 15, 2011
It's a crude, queasy, ugly remake of a crude, queasy, ugly, yet artistically superior 40-year-old Sam Peckinpah movie. Read full review
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