The picture is humorless and witless. The barrage of allegedly important details is supposed to keep us intrigued, but it barely keeps us occupied.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
88 Minutes proves itself to be a maddeningly mediocre, ineptly manipulative "real-time" thriller.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
Although it's often laugh-out-loud laughably bad, 88 Minutes is mostly just a slog.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
Not merely Pacino's over-mannered, near-histrionic performance, but the movie itself could be characterized as busy, busy, busy. It's so full of plot twists and revelations and exploding sports cars that its very perkiness comes to seem comic.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
I'm guessing it's the pressure of an idiot script by Gary Scott Thompson and understandably clueless direction from Jon Avnet that forces Pacino to ham it up so vigorously that you want to garnish him with cloves and a slice of pineapple.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
I've seen Pacino over the edge. This is not it. He looks pooped and pickled. Maybe being the only thing standing between a megaplex opening and a trip straight to the $4.99 bin at Target wiped him out.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
This may be the most preposterous movie of the year. It is certainly the most ridiculous movie starring an Oscar-winning actor.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
One of the dumbest thrillers to arrive it theaters in a long time.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Ella Taylor
We may have to sit through worse films to come this year, but with any luck, there'll be none as guilelessly, idiotically misogynist as this one.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
A stinker, the more so for the thespian excesses of the accomplished cast.Read Full Review »
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