V for Vendetta
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: March 17, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
Positive:
28
Mixed:
8
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
VarietyLeslie Felperin
Suffers from many of same problems as last two installments of producers Andy and Larry Wachowski's "Matrix" franchise: indigestible dialogue, pacing difficulties and too much pseudo-philosophical info. Read full review
50
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Absorbing even in its incoherence,V for Vendetta manages to make an old popular mythology new. Impossible not to break into a grin: It's the thought that counts. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Finally, a film to unite movie-mad members of Al Qaeda with your neighbor's kid, the one with the crush on Natalie Portman. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
By the time you've gotten through it, you feel spent, loaded down and more than a little disoriented. Part of the problem is that the movie's big concepts - violence begets violence, absolute power corrupts absolutely, everything is connected, my terrorist is your freedom fighter, etc. - are pithy, brief and irrefutable enough to embroider on throw pillows. Read full review
40
NewsweekJeff Giles
The movie plays like a clumsy assault on post-9/11 paranoia. It references "America's war," uses imagery direct from Abu Ghraib and contains dialogue likely to offend anyone who's not, say, a suicide bomber. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
The more valid question is how anyone who isn't 14 or under could possibly mistake a corporate bread-and-circus entertainment like this for something subversive. You want radical? Wait for the next Claire Denis film. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
The film is beset by incoherence and implausibilities that are perplexing, given the close relationship between the Wachowskis and the director, Mr. McTeigue.
40
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Both oversimplifies and overcomplicates Moore's and Lloyd's vision, but it never cuts to the bone. It's a movie drawn with big, bold strokes and very little feeling -- a tracing-paper exercise masquerading as a masterpiece. Read full review
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