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2013
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Negative reviews
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4.5
So does McDonagh, gleefully blowing up the movie even while hes making it.
Av Club
4.5
Seven Psychopaths isnt up to Adaptations standards, mind, but it does have plenty to it worthy of recommendation.
Den Of Geek
4.2
But each strong jab in the ribs comes equipped with a dose of creative insight.
Indie Wire
4.0
Martin McDonaghs Seven Psychopaths is a sharp piece of fun that both pokes at the current climate of filmmaking while also adding its own brand of hum ..
We Got This Covered
4.5
If its not one of the years very best films, its certainly among the most enjoyable.
We Got This Covered
3.5
It cries of a number of wasted opportunities to really make something of itself, instead of merely basking in its own charm and wit.
We Got This Covered
3.5
This is a very smart comedy about very dumb people doing really awful things to one another.
Austin Chronicle
4.5
Seven Psychopaths isnt a great movie there are stretches where it has too much going on for its own good but it is an inspired, strange, and occasiona ..
Austin Chronicle
4.0
What saves Seven Psychopaths from being po faced or tedious is its sharp as knives humour, energetic pacing, knack for surprising asides and fun perfo ..
Time Out
3.0
At worst, the film earns our dismissive scorn for its knowingly smug treatment of buxom bullet bait played by Olga Kurylenko and Abbie Cornish.
Time Out
4.5
None of clearly defined characters and are products of fine writing rather than personalities that develop.
Screen Daily
1.5
Final Thoughts I would most definitely recommend giving Seven Psychopaths a watch.
Collider
4.5
The movie doesnt simply break through writers block; Seven Psychopaths gleefully blows the block to hell.
Collider
4.0
It remains to be seen if Seven Psychopaths will find its way with audiences and move past the cult status it seems destined forthe film is too meta to ..
Paste Magazine
4.4
Written and directed by Martin McDonagh (In Bruges), this is a delightfully goofy, self aware movie that knows it is a movie.Youve heard of a movie wi ..
Rogerebert
3.5
Its a quick witted story boasting some solid performances by great actors.
IGN
1.0
For all its trickery, Seven Psychopaths feels as derivative as the rash of wordy, windy thrillers that tried desperately to mimic Tarantino and Scotts ..
Telegraph
5.0
When Im watching a film and I can see something done poorly or even just plain wrong, I can identify it, explain why its incorrect, and even sometimes ..
Cinema Blend
3.0
Fun as it is, the movies meta conceits can be a bit trying by the time all the loose screws are gathered up.
Ny Daily News
4.0
Certainly the latest film from the director of IN BRUGES didnt belong opposite such hardcore fare as DREDD
JoBlo
3.5
Moviegoers who can handle philosophical musings accompanied by exploding heads will find that McDonagh has delivered another sharp and entertaining fi ..
Screen Rant
3.8
But no, because unlike In Bruges which promised more substance than it delivered this flick never pretends to be anything but a bright hall of fun hou ..
The Globe And Mail
3.1
But put a gun in the hands of Woody Harrelson and some glorious gab in the mouth of Christopher Walken the most deadpan of deadpanning thespians and i ..
Philly
3.5
Ive never before heard an audience applaud a throat slitting suicide.
Village Voice
3.8
But as long as you remember that this is just a Smokin Aces for the literary minded youll be fine.
Rogers Movie Nation
2.5
You might like this film better if you think exploding heads is a funny bit and that weird equals funny.
Sover
3.5
10 1 7 / 10 I fully recognize that I was in the minority with my mixed review of 2008s In Bruges, finding writer/director Martin McDonaghs obvious cle ..
Blu Ray
2.0
This hypocritical feint will probably guarantee him a rapturous reception by fanboys and critics alike, but I cant remember the last time I was so sor ..
Chicago Reader
4.4
Seven Psychopaths has a wicked sense of humor, not only about its characters but also about itself.
Mark Reviews Movies
4.4
His distinctive turns of phrases and rapid fire dialogue add heft to a story that ultimately doesnt quite come together.But its so fun getting there t ..
Usa Today
2.5
I got the feeling this movie is largely just a waste of time, even if it is a little bit entertaining, too.
Lariat
3.8
You see where this is going.But actually, the clever and loquacious McDonagh is using this bullet riddled scenario reminiscent of countless indie crim ..
Eric Ds Nider
4.0
If your cringe threshold is high enough, this is one of the funniest comedies of the year.
News Review
3.5
As long as you dont mind the material, it all goes down fairly easily and the performers are all game for whats asked of them.
Screen It
3.8
Blood splatters, heads explode, and McDonagh takes sassy, self mocking shots at the very notion of being literary in Hollywood.Its crazy killer fun.
Rolling Stone
3.0
The Nature of Imitation is the sound of Dorian Concept systematically deconstructing various genres, stripping them back to the bones underneath and t ..
Pop Matters
3.5
The Nature of Imitation is the sound of Dorian Concept systematically deconstructing various genres, stripping them back to the bones underneath and t ..
Pop Matters
4.5
But even if the snake winds up swallowing its own tail, its a jolting spectacle youll want to keep watching.
The Wrap
3.0
Walken is equally good (his pronunciation of hallucinogens almost worth the price of admission alone) and theres strong comic support from Harrelson, ..
View London
2.5
And his actors are ridiculously good: Farrell mostly plays it straight, but Rockwell is wonderfully bonkers, Harrelsons timing is terrific and Walken ..
News Day
5.0
But go with the satiric intent, and youll be laughing out loud at the movies cartoonish carnage, deconstructions of pop movie cliches, and the very id ..
Film Journal
4.0
(McDonagh engages in some self referential business throughout the film, with his screenwriters decrying various filmmaking shortcomings even as the m ..
Az Central
3.8
Hard to tell but bloody enjoyable (and joyously bloody) to watch.
Boston
3.5
For all its bloodletting and profanities, Seven Psychopaths cant hope to match its predecessor for charm and accessibility.
Smh
3.5
But the picture is so aggressively clever that it becomes wearisome.
Npr
5.0
A movie that leaves you stumbling out of the theater in a state of giddy, elated vertigo.
Star Tribune
3.8
McDonagh is more effective when he keeps things simpleand moving.
Emanuellevy
5.0
But mostly the ruthless black humour is sustained, and occasionally some genuine emotion can creep in and touch our hearts.
Guardian
2.0
He wants to write a film about psychopaths, but has a muddled need to make it a gentle drama about love.
Guardian
4.0
In some ways, Seven Psychopaths is a more conventional confection than its predecessor.
Guardian
4.5
If youre looking for an unusual movie going experience without in your face 3D, this is a good bet for you.
Reel Talk Reviews
3.5
Like In Bruges, this film veers from grotesque violence to tender, even understated emotion, and conceals a level of apparently genuine spiritual or r ..
Salon
4.5
All this narrative nesting and genre skipping sounds very cerebral on the page, but in practice, Seven Psychopaths is as pleasurably kinetic as can be ..
Slate
4.0
However, a more purely entertaining film youd be hard pressed to find; Seven Psychopaths is best enjoyed as an unabashed hell raiser thats also bloody ..
Flim List
4.0
Enormously entertaining, endlessly quotable, perfectly cast and packed full of the richest acting youll see from an ensemble cast all year, but the re ..
Empire
0.0
This time ignorance is bliss, but to me, the movie is genuinely humor resistant.
Observer
4.0
In spite of the movies immense cleverness, it has a genuine affection for its trio of misfits, and they have a genuine affection for one another, too. ..
Common Sense Media
4.0
If you make me laugh while youre doing it then I like you even more.And McDonagh accomplishes all of this in a way thatll remind you of other filmmake ..
Movies
3.1
The cutesy, petty criminals out of their depth setup serves as little more than trigger for McDonaghs scattershot riffs on Hollywood screenwritingsome ..
Slant Magazine
3.0
Its another black comedy but less disciplined and even more off the range bonkers.
Express
3.8
McDonaghs characters may be awful, or simply lost, but theyre all addicted to the art of the tall tale and the dark allure of the nightmarish bedtime ..
Chicago Tribune
3.2
Over ambition seems to be the trend, lately, for filmmakers the second time out the gate.
Reeling Reviews
4.5
McDonagh plays in wonderfully depraved ways with Hollywood depictions of violence and the expectations that weve come to hold because of those tropes, ..
Flickfilosopher
3.0
But McDonaghs brilliant way with one liners always claws back enough ground to stifle any groans.
The Irish Times
5.0
...Walken manages to transcend the mean spiritedness of the proceedings with a bright, typically idiosyncratic but wholly endearing performance.
Blogs Indie Wire
3.0
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Total Film
3.1
For about 75 minutes, Seven Psychopaths is a rollicking good movie kinetic, clever, funny, and brutal. Then, inexplicably, it falls apart.
ReelViews
4.0
But what saves it from being merely a show offy wheel spinning exercise is the films possibly candid acknowledgement of the woes of writers block and ..
Hollywood Reporter
4.5
But ultimately, its the Billy Marty dialecticbetween low art and high, violence and pacifism, movie and movie critiquethat provides the film with its ..
The Atlantic
3.0
But the way this film spoofs itself becomes tiresome and even, in its perverse way, oddly predictable.
Standard
3.5
Still, the ensemble performances are delightful.Rockwell is a blast, and Walken is fully in command.
Coles Mithey
2.0
Not only is an actual shaggy dog, a tiny Shih Tzu, the cynosure of all eyes here, but the films rambling narrative meanders into all kinds of haphazar ..
Los Angeles Times
2.0
Ironically enough, the scribes apparent lack of any attempt to make a grand artistic statement could easily make this outing his most accessible proje ..
Variety
3.8
That McDonagh can see that about his own screenplay is part of its postmodern appeal, to a point.
Groucho Reviews
4.2
Benedict Cumberbatch Wants You To Know He *Is* The Motherf*cking Grinch The Grinch star takes Mike Ryan through the final scenes of Avengers: Infinity ..
Hit Fix
3.8
Were it not for the inclusion of an unexpectedly eventful third act anchored by Fiennes astoundingly entertaining (and undeniably broad) performance t ..
Reel Film
3.5
(This is probably the bloodiest good comedy and, often, bloody good comedy since that other Hollywood spoof, Tropic Thunder).Seven Psychopaths is not ..
Nj
2.0
McDonaghs movie can be seen as a satirical take on violent genre movies, as a violent genre movie or as a movie that, in its best moments, makes you l ..
Movie Habit
3.8
The tone of the picture wanders from simple slapstick to complex satire and from romantic drama to near horror.
The Star
3.8
The movie seems to be partially about McDonaghs conflicted attitude about the violence and cliches of just the sort of smart alecky macho action flick ..
Oregon Live
3.5
Its clever and convoluted (but in a good way) and the jive doesnt stop with the screenplay.
Urban Cine File
3.1
Its the satisfying dialogue flow, the playful interactions between the characters, and the knowing jabs at traditional screenplay tropes that keep us ..
Movies Tv Guide
4.0
With a title like SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS, you shouldnt be expecting sweetness and light.
Maki At The Movies
3.0
Much like this film, you think you know whats coming, then: boom.
Digital Spy
3.2
McDonagh serves up several gems of audaciously violent humor but never makes a bracelet.
Tamp A Bay
3.1
Theres too much going on here for me to wrap my head around, but I reserve the right in 10 years to call this a masterpiece.Or a failure.
New York Post
3.8
That means a shootout watched by a cute little Shih Tzu and a movie that accomplishes the difficult task of convincingly balancing a great deal of blo ..
Red Eye Chicago
5.0
It plays around a lot with the writing of screenplays and fiction vs. reality, which has been done many times before.But McDonagh has a deft touch wit ..
Cleve Land
3.8
Just because a movie knows what its problems are doesnt mean theyre negated, but it sure makes it more fun to pinpoint the layers of self awareness th ..
Dustin Put Man
4.0
But a continual stream of hilariously clever gags make it thoroughly entertaining, and the seriously great actors are so playful that its infectious.
Contact Music
4.5
Irish playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh doesnt make movies; theyre more like balancing acts.With In Bruges and his latest, Seven Psychopaths, M ..
Ar Kansas Online
4.5
Rockwells Looney Tunes energy and Walkens consistently off speed timing are a pure delight.
Hollywood And Fine
2.5
It feels like the third act of Adaptation. stretched to a tiresome length.Ultimately, the experience of watching Seven Psychopaths is akin to watching ..
The Filmy Ap
4.4
Chock full of delirious one liners and dime store novel violence, call it Taranti noir.
Js Online
3.5
Is there a chance tooh, never mind.Lets just blow someones brains out.
Hollywood Chicago
3.0
Although Psychopaths is an enjoyably confounding experience, some will be put off by its parade of esoteric ideas. But what a parade it is.
Cinemix Tape
2.0
McDonaghs film feels very much like an exercise in style and structure, not story.
Sbs
3.0
Unfortunately, McDonaghs lack of restraint in thinning out his own screenplay results in a bustling, unpredictable movie that takes a touch too much p ..
The Shiz Nit
4.0
But on the whole, Seven Psychopaths still carries the refreshing dialogue and punchy humor of its predecessor, but has enough interesting ideas to be ..
What Culture
2.0
For all of the films bloodshed and misogyny (McDonaghs attempt to mitigate that misogyny by questioning it himself doesnt wash), the most off putting ..
The Skinny
4.0
All the leads are well chosen, turning farce with thriller overtones into a uniquely tasty movie.
Scots Man
4.4
Its not often that you can say in a comedy that you have no idea where it is headed plot wise.
Scene Stealers
4.0
McDonagh has a better ear for comic dialogue than a mastery of tone; some scenes, particularly the brutal execution of Christopher Walkens spouse feel ..
The Ooh Tray
4.0
With Seven Psychopaths, McDonagh has come up with a whip smart movie that is almost too clever by half.
What So
3.5
What sets it apart from less enterprising fright flicks is its disturbing imagery.
reason
4.0
It does build to a touching climax when Hans suggests a peaceful finale, and the events preceding it are too much fun for us to be truly bothered by t ..
Streaming Quickflix
4.0
By the time its Kaufman esque meta fictitious streak truly begins to settle in, youll realise that this blackly comic tale of a dog knapping gone wron ..
Fan The Fire Magazine
4.0
That was the story of In Bruges, a tale of two killers (Farrell and Brendan Gleeson) on a Belgian holiday in Hell.
Entertainment Time
4.0
Hugh Laurie stars in The Oranges Their affair causes everyone to go gaga.
Daily Star
5.0
The film is full of great performances but I must make the following clear: IF SAM ROCKWELL IS NOT NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR I WILL SEND WOODY HARRELSON ..
Media Mikes
4.5
It serves its place in the film, is extreme, but normally has a sense of humor behind it.
The Scorecard Review
4.0
...the moment to moment of the unparalleled craziness that experimental narrative, character dexterity and into the depths of McDonaghs necessary seco ..
Graffiti With Punctuation
3.0
When the film itself is jerking you around, the cast is carrying you through it.
Need Coffee
4.0
But, the Oscar winner spins a standard LA crime story into a meta mental slice of celluloid: a movie about making a movie that constantly reminds us w ..
Sky
4.0
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Richard Roeper
3.2
This movie was that it felt like a comedian on stage who doesnt give a shit about the audience and if theyre getting laughs when the audiences thinks ..
Schmoes Know
1.5
But apparently all this bloody mess only serves as inspiration for Marty.
Critics Notebook
2.0
Happily, Seven Psychopaths is redeemed by some truly memorable performances.
Aarp
4.0
But writer director Martin McDonagh is ultimately a charmer with a knack for crackling dialogue and genuinely fresh characters.
Kpbs
3.5
This is truly an ensemble piece in which the sum of the parts is very much what makes the film a success.
Hey U Guys
4.0
Seven Psychopaths presents a clever if largely surface level argument about cinema as art versus cinema as a delivery system for more immediate gratif ..
Movie Line
3.0
Because of the cast, the directors previous form and the ambitious, multi layered nature of the script, Seven Psychopaths is a film you feel you ought ..
Birmingham Mail
3.8
Seven Psychopaths is like a blood soaked version of one of those enormous Christmas presents with dozens of little individually wrapped gifts inside.O ..
Twin Cities
4.0
Ill throw in a dash of The Coen Bros., a bucket of blood, and weve got ourselves a recipe for delightful disaster. = = =
Horror
4.0
If this sounds like a shaggy shih tzu story rather than a tightly plotted thriller, it is and thats part of the joke.
7 Dvt
3.5
And for the most part, as aforesaid, it is actually a pretty fun ride.
Movie City News
2.0
Seven Psychopaths is worth a watch if only to see McDonagh bring his magic touch to the strange deserts of America a weird and whacked out journey fro ..
Electric Sheep Magazine
2.5
Theres just nothing to hold onto here.Its got brains, but no heart, or balls.
Filmdrunk Uproxx
3.0
At worst, the film earns our dismissive scorn for its knowingly smug treatment of buxom bullet bait played by Olga Kurylenko and Abbie Cornish.
Time Out Chicago
3.8
As often happens with films that have a narrative this ambitious and laboriously paced, some of Psychopaths ideas are more laid out than others.
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