Murder By Numbers

Turns potentially forgettable formula into something strangely diverting.Read Full Review »

The result is two or three cuts above genre standard.Read Full Review »

Bullock does a good job here of working against her natural likability, creating a character you'd like to like, and could like, if she weren't so sad, strange and turned in upon herself.Read Full Review »

Though Schroeder makes you squirm more than you want to at the inevitable scenes of the trussed-up female murder victim, he also has the proclivity and the skill to make at least the B-picture half of Murder by Numbers of more than passing interest.Read Full Review »

When Bullock is on screen, Murder by Numbers is as far away as a sleepwalker's gaze. But when Schroeder focuses on the teenagers, the film is wide awake, eye-to-eye with adolescent angst and anomie.Read Full Review »

For much of its length, the film is plausible, if predictable and ponderous. Its strongest assets are its actors.Read Full Review »

Towards the end, Murder By Numbers reverts to form with cheesy clichés, plot twists, and a fair amount of unnecessary action, but that's easily the film's low point.Read Full Review »

Isn't a great movie, but it's a perfectly acceptable widget.Read Full Review »

Even though Bullock engages in a climactic scene of blue-screen peril, she essentially cedes the match to the kids. In this mediocre murder case, their presence is the only thing that's really killer.Read Full Review »

The real surprise, given the secondhand material, is that not everything proceeds by rote in Murder by Numbers.Read Full Review »