The Set-Up
RKO Radio Pictures | Release Date: April 2, 1949 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

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60
The New YorkerPauline Kael
It's not a great movie, or even a very good one (it's rather mechanical), but it touches one's experience in a way that makes it hard to forget.
50
Slant MagazineNick Schager
Robert Wise’s The Set-Up isn’t noir by any serious definition, its boilerplate fatalism undone by overbearing moralizing and the fact that Ryan’s boxer is too one-dimensionally good to register as tragic. Read full review
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