Merhige understands how exciting going to the edge of credibility can be without falling off, and he has the bravura talent and imagination needed to pull off the sheer, hurtling audacity of Suspect Zero.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
With its spooky atmosphere to spare and a riveting central performance by Kingsley, an actor who manages to elicit both terror and sympathy, I was able to forget all those things, basking in the pleasure of my own goose bumps. So, for an hour and a half, will you.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
Eckhart, who gets more rugged by the picture, certainly works hard to bring the audience along. But he's a nervous wreck for nothing. This movie isn't talking to us, it's talking to other serial killer movies.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
There's a point at which its enigmatic flashes of incomprehensible action grow annoying, and a point at which we realize that there's no use paying close attention, because we won't be able to figure out the film's secrets until they're explained to us.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
The truth is, the freakiness kinda turns the director on, and he nearly strangles Suspect Zero with love.Read Full Review »
The movie's premise is as dopey as they come: A serial killer with a conscience is killing other serial killers.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
None of the principals is remotely likable--although Kingsley does appear to enjoy swanning around the great Southwest like a low-rent Anthony Hopkins.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Suspect Zero is loaded with cheap thrills for the expensively educated.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
A grisly, depraved and wholly uninvolving exercise in empty mannerism.Read Full Review »
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