A curious mix of the campy and the intelligent, of high concept and low psychology. In spite of these contradictions, or perhaps because of them, it works. This is a tense and engaging thriller.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Listen to me: trash can surprise you. So don't get all elitist about the so-called cheap thrills in Mr. Brooks.Read Full Review »
A fertile example of the Studio Film Gone Berserk, where too many characters and too many story lines geometrically progress until a level of blissful absurdity is reached.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
What compels then isn't the overwrought plot, but the simpler things, the dynamics between the actors, the avuncularity between old pros Costner and Hurt and the class condescension between Costner and Cook. It has a fascinatin' rhythm.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Beneath its drab veil of self-seriousness, Mr. Brooks is nothing but just plain silly.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Mr. Brooks begins promisingly, but it grows steadily more preposterous as it goes along, becoming the first feel-good serial-killer movie.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
The movie becomes a crazy quilt of competing stories, none of them properly developed. You could cut half the major characters out of Mr. Brooks and never miss them.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
A werewolf movie masquerading as a thriller, it looks like a canny attempt by Bruce A. Evans, its director and screenwriter (with Raynold Gideon), to establish a "Saw"-like franchise using the names of fading ’80s stars to lend the project a semblance of respectability.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Crust
Evans and Gideon never really succeed in selling the idea that serial killing is a disease -- which would require a degree of realism that the slick, over-plotted Mr. Brooks doesn't otherwise aspire to. They seem to be content with occupying the audience with a series of twists and jolts.Read Full Review »
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