The movie is, in short, your money's worth, better than we expect, more fun than we deserve.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
It's an adequate superhero yarn, but, hopefully, it's not the best of the burgeoning genre that 2003 has to offer.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Brought to the screen with a mix of jaunty humor and jagged violence that should have worked more effectively than it does.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
Alone among the cast, Farrell seems to understand that this movie -- which is lazy and stoned, for all its loud music -- needed somebody to go ape-shit, to pretend to give a crap or at least to have fun.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
Like Affleck himself, the film is perfectly satisfactory without being deeply satisfying.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
Daredevil the movie strains itself trying to catch up with Sam Raimi's web-slinging megasmash. It's a faceless copy, right down to the muscle-rock groaning on the soundtrack.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Unfortunately, Garner doesn't have as much screen time as her prominence in the advertising would indicate: Daredevil has a hard time staying alive when she's not on the scene.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
Johnson rips off a lot of "Batman," especially in the cathedral climax, but that's not so bad: The movie looks best when it looks like other, better movies.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Daredevil is the sort of half-assed, visually lackadaisical potboiler that makes you rue the day that comic-book franchises ever took over Hollywood.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
Torn between moody grandiosity and cartoonish mayhem, Daredevil tries to have it both ways, and succeeds at neither.Read Full Review »