A breathtaking exercise in the macabre, a gruesome thriller with quirky cops and a killer of Lecterian complexity, and even when the movie is perfect nonsense, it's so voluptuous that you're grateful to be watching it anyway.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Jay Carr
The Crimson Rivers could teach many an American thriller a thing or two about sophisticated creepiness.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Jessica Winter
Never lacks for energy, and the director and his stars stride with focused confidence through the hooey.Read Full Review »
Wants to be about life, death and the red liquid that flows beneath our skin. It ends up being more about stage blood and stupid plot tricks.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
The full explanation for the movie's graphically depicted horrors is preposterous even by the almost-anything- goes standards of the action-thriller conspiracy genre.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
The French now proudly prove they can make a big stupid violent cop movie, just like our gifted Hollywood professionals.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Thomas
Not even the strong, reflective, world-weary presence of Reno or Cassel's energy can make a dent in a movie in which suspense and tension dissipate quickly, with action sequences not spectacular enough to compensate. All that's left is gratuitous gore.Read Full Review »
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