War on Everyone
Saban Films | Release Date: February 3, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
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Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
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10
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
VarietyPeter DebrugeJan 31, 2017
While his American competition practices the right to remain silent, McDonagh writes his clever, coal-black heart out, delivering another firecracker script. Read full review
80
EmpireNick de SemlyenSep 26, 2016
A thinking person’s Bad Boys, this off-kilter indie crime comedy introduces two deliriously warped lawmen to the screen. Here’s to a Cuba-invading sequel. Read full review
75
Rolling StoneDavid FearFeb 2, 2017
For some folks, such retrograde pleasures have lost their bloody-knuckled charm. If this is still your bag all these years later and you wish the 1990s had never ended, however, then everyone wins. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangFeb 2, 2017
It’s pleasurable enough to see Skarsgård and especially Peña, so often cast as a genial second banana, taking pride of place in their own vehicle, even if this one fails to make the most of their considerable chemistry. Read full review
70
Village VoiceKenji FujishimaFeb 2, 2017
Much of it feels inconsequential compared to his previous films, but McDonagh's unflagging anarchic energy keeps it juicily diverting in the moment. Read full review
70
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoJan 31, 2017
War On Everyone is a pitch-black, nihilistic riot, like a pissed-off teenager spinning atop a mountain with two outstretched middle fingers pointing in every direction. Read full review
67
The PlaylistJessica KiangJan 31, 2017
Entertaining though it is in parts, it can’t really be said to mark any particular growth for McDonagh as a filmmaker, being both less angry and more cynical that the brooding "Calvary" and consequently less memorable and relevant too. Read full review
60
Screen DailyLee MarshallJan 31, 2017
War On Everyone is essentially a clothes hanger for smart one-liners, verbal and visual, and its success will depend partly on how folks like the look of the clothes hanger. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonJan 31, 2017
After the bruising honesty of ‘Calvary’, it’s probably not surprising that McDonagh felt the urge to cut loose a little and make a movie with few ambitions beyond cheap violence and filthy laughs. Let’s just hope he’s got it out of his system. Read full review
60
Total FilmPhilip KempJan 31, 2017
Skarsgård and Peña relish their roles, but this pitch-black action-com feels like 100 gags in search of a storyline. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattFeb 3, 2017
Crass, senseless, and relentlessly talky, War on Everyone mostly seems like a movie at war with itself. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloFeb 1, 2017
War On Everyone’s saving grace is its freewheeling refusal to commit to any particular tone, including the rancid one that generally dominates. Read full review
58
The Film StageTommaso TocciJan 31, 2017
A noticeable step down from the highs of The Guard and Calvary, War on Everyone is still only McDonagh’s third effort and nonetheless a bold, lively endeavour. Read full review
58
ConsequenceMarten CarlsonJan 31, 2017
McDonagh seems to have more to say in this film, but it’s lost among the narrative and stylistic inconsistencies. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonJan 31, 2017
War on Everyone is a little too keen to advertise its own cleverness. The characters feel more like random collections of quirky tics than real people. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJan 31, 2017
The film is in love with the tropes it ridicules, and it doesn't take long for that love to dwarf any possibility of critique. Read full review
40
The GuardianHenry BarnesJan 31, 2017
You can’t let your heroes be truly, purely horrible. But McDonagh’s moral twist comes in way too late and much too hard. It leaves you dizzy. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreDec 20, 2016
McDonagh’s script is so ad hoc, so clumsily random, that nothing adds up to anything. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla DargisFeb 2, 2017
Mr. McDonagh’s palette and spleen remain mostly intact, but here he’s neglected to include a story or point. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyFeb 3, 2017
So hackneyed, tired, labored and overstuffed with contempt not only for all of its targets but also its own self that one gets the feeling that the talented Mr. McDonagh has gone mad with rage. Possibly during dealings with the American film industry. Read full review
20
The TelegraphTim RobeyOct 6, 2016
Theoretically, getting to see Peña and Skarsgård goof around with these leading roles is the film’s headline draw; but the script is so misguidedly pleased with itself, all you’re doing is watching two amiable stars mug strenuously and try their best. Read full review
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