The Hollow Point
Vertical Entertainment | Release Date: December 16, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
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2
Mixed:
5
Negative:
3
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70
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoNov 30, 2016
The Hollow Point is a blazing contemporary western that finds pleasure in punishment. Read full review
63
The Seattle TimesTom KeoghDec 14, 2016
Within this uncertain world, Lopéz-Gallego relishes such noir staples as fatalistic shadows, eruptive mayhem and terse, ironic dialogue. But he and his cinematographer, Jose David Montero, also carve out fresh visual territory. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJonathan HollandDec 15, 2016
As homage, the film is visually striking, littered with moments of real cinematographic intelligence, and always watchable, in a nasty sort of way, but as a thriller, its ambitions of intensity are thwarted by a plot which becomes increasingly out-there as the twists and turns pile up. Read full review
50
VarietyJoe LeydonDec 19, 2016
There are sporadic compensations for your investment of time: Ian McShane’s robust overplaying of an unapologetically scuzzy small-town lawman, John Leguizamo’s dead-serious villainy as a scarily resilient hit man, evocative lensing by David Jose Montero, and a few modestly inventive twists in the otherwise predictable plot. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisDec 15, 2016
The combined skills of the director, Gonzalo López-Gallego, and his cinematographer, José David Montero, can’t surmount a story that gives us no one to invest in. Read full review
42
The PlaylistGary GarrisonDec 30, 2016
It knows of its B-movie roots, its tired plot and well-worn archetypes, and beneath the burden of the sorely unoriginal, it does manage to be occasionally funny, occasionally surprising, and occasionally the bloody and bombastic genre cliche it set out to be. Read full review
40
Village VoiceApril WolfeDec 13, 2016
Lyew kills the story with implausible twists, but he does craft some effective, original set pieces. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyDec 16, 2016
The Hollow Point is such a shameless and indifferent recycling of Nihilistic Crime In The New American West clichés that it feels like it was crafted by committee. A really lazy committee. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineChuck BowenDec 13, 2016
Gonzalo López-Gallego's direction isn't confident enough to allow us to ignore The Hollow Point's contrivances. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleDec 15, 2016
The Hollow Point is all hollow, no point. Read full review
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