Palo Alto Weekly
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10
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By Susan Tavernetti
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Feb 25, 2011
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Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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10
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By Linda Cook
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Feb 25, 2011
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Filmcritic.com
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Critic Rating:
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9
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By Christopher Null
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Feb 25, 2011
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LA Movie Examiner
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10
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By Billy Tatum
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Oct 22, 2010
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Maybe the best gadget any spy has is the ability to magically stop aging in their forties. We should all be so lucky. Then again, if they didn't age, we'd have been cheated out of the treat that is RED. Proving that superior casting beats superior gizmos, the quartet of Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich prove that you can grow old and kick butt gracefully. Based on the DC graphic novel, RED stands for Retired and Extremely Dangerous....
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Seattle Movie Examiner
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8
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By Bethany Clough
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Oct 18, 2010
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Whenever a film is centered around retired cops, or spies, or assassins, it feels like before you even see the film you can hear the dialogue in your head : ‘Back in my day…,’ ‘Things aren’t like the used to be,’ ‘Who you calling old?’ ‘I’m too old for this—.‘ The good news, new action film Red is only partially guilty of that expectation.Frank Moses is a r...
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Chicago Reader
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0
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By Ben Sachs
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Oct 16, 2010
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Much of the enjoyment comes from seeing these respected thespians so thoroughly embody cartoon characters; it's like Sidney Lumet directing Space Jam.
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New York Post
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8
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By Kyle Smith
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Oct 15, 2010
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Red, perhaps the first CIA-AARP flick, fits seniors with grenade launchers instead of slippers. I say it's about time.
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Washington Post
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6
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By Ann Hornaday
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Oct 15, 2010
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The one-liners zing right along with the bullets in a playful pas de deux of mayhem, misdirection and mordant humor.
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Entertainment Weekly
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5
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By Keith Staskiewicz
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Oct 15, 2010
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Unfortunately, while Red's stars may have gotten better with age, its many clichés have not.
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Detroit News
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7
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By Tom Long
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Oct 15, 2010
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You're never too old for mayhem.
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Film.com
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6
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By Laremy Legel
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Oct 15, 2010
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What really works for Red is our shared history with the actors involved.
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Denver Post
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7
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By Lisa Kennedy
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Oct 15, 2010
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Red has ka-booms, rat-a-tat-tats and a wildly extended first date. It's edgy and fantastically gooey -- and flaunts it.
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Houston Chronicle
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8
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By Amy Biancolli
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Oct 15, 2010
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Old people who kill people are so much cuter than young people who kill people, right? In a movie like RED, that's all we need to know.
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Newark Star-Ledger
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4
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By Stephen Whitty
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Oct 15, 2010
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It's as if the studio simply assembled a huge pile of money in the middle of the back lot, set it ablaze and started filming. And I wish they had, because it would have been more interesting to watch than this.
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New York Daily News
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7
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By Elizabeth Weitzman
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Oct 15, 2010
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An action comedy as entertaining to watch as it evidently was to make.
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Wall Street Journal
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0
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By Joe Morgenstern
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Oct 15, 2010
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Only in Hollywood is someone seriously old at 55, but this is the underlying thesis of Red, and it works like a well-worn charm.
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Denver Film Community Examiner
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6
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By Christian Toto
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Oct 15, 2010
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Bruce Willis is the star of the new action comedy "Red," but the movie belongs to a 60-something Dame with a zest for firepower.What hath "The Expendables" wrought?We know Willis can still hang with the likes of Jason Statham, but who figured Helen Mirren could handle a gun with such a wicked grin?"Red," the film adaptation of the snarky DC Comics series, follows four ex-CIA agents being hunted by their old bosses....
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West Palm Beach and Miami Movie Examiner
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8
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By Steven Lebowitz
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Oct 14, 2010
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When you think of a comic book movie, you probably get images of people wearing spandex or colorful rubber costumes being pitted against villains who look even more flamboyant. If you saw a movie that was based on a DC Comic and not some independent you would almost certainly think you were about to see something like that. That is not the case with the new movie from Summit Entertainment, "RED". Bruce Willis is Frank Moses a retired blac...
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Tampa Movie Examiner
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6
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By Joe Belcastro
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Oct 14, 2010
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Red is attempting to keep the streak alive with regards to all the solid action-comedies found in 2010. Coincidently, Bruce Willis is trying to make it two for two in the genre after the success in Cop Out earlier this year. This time, Willis is working with an award-winning cast. So expectations from the audience are naturally elevated. With that in mind, if one bothers to look at the screenplay writers in John and Erich Hoeber, worries start to set in....
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Bullz-Eye.com
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7
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By David Medsker
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Oct 14, 2010
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What it lacks in originality, it makes up for in Helen Mirren with a gun, which should be a requirement of all movies from now on.
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Chicago Tribune
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6
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By Michael Phillips
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Oct 14, 2010
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RED stands for "Retired, Extremely Dangerous," though "Reasonably Entertaining Diversion" works too.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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10
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By Roger Ebert
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Oct 14, 2010
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Associated Press
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0
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By David Germain
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Oct 14, 2010
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This latest adaptation of a hip graphic novel fails to fill in the spaces between the action with anything terribly interesting.
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iamROGUE
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9
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By JimmyO
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Oct 13, 2010
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... a star-studded, action-packed, loaded-with-laughs, great time!
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Boston Phoenix
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8
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By Peter Keough
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Oct 13, 2010
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As an exercise for movie stars of a certain age, it sure outclasses The Expendables.
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Miami Herald
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6
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By Rene Rodriguez
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Oct 13, 2010
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Compared to such generic, flashy duds as Knight and Day or The Expendables, Red goes down like a flute of fine champagne. Here's how it's done, youngsters.
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune
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8
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By Christopher Lloyd
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Oct 13, 2010
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Red is an agreeable piffle, a fun action/comedy that's silly without being moronic.
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Slant Magazine
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2
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By Nick Schager
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Oct 13, 2010
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Red instead exhibits all the get-up-and-go of a grandpa on the verge of an afternoon nap.
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Arizona Republic
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8
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By Bill Goodykoontz
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Oct 13, 2010
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Red isn't a great movie, but it's great fun, and if that sounds like damning with faint praise, you take things too seriously.
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Orlando Sentinel
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6
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By Roger Moore
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Oct 13, 2010
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RED has enough acting flourishes and incidental action pleasures to make it an adrenalin-jacked giggle, if not exactly the romp one so fervently expects.
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Village Voice
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0
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By Robert Wilonsky
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Oct 13, 2010
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Classiest. Comic. Book. Movie. Ever.
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Baltimore Movie Examiner
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10
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By Tom Clocker
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Oct 13, 2010
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9 out of 10‘Red’ combines four of the movie industry’s greatest features into a single film: action, comedy, comic book material and Bruce Willis. Most of the time, the audience is lucky to get maybe...
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ColeSmithey.com
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3
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By Cole Smithey
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Oct 10, 2010
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Here's another pound of proof supporting the theorem that "story is about thoroughness, not shortcuts."
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NewsBlaze
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0
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By Prairie Miller
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Oct 10, 2010
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Rowdy espionage by over-the-hill undercover hotheads that is less about belligerent bragging rights, than generation gap self-parody. And a PG rated Willis initiated phone sex sidebar for unrequited lovebirds, in prolonged perverse celibate CIA desire.
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www.susangranger.com
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8
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By Susan Granger
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Oct 08, 2010
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This is an amusing crowd-pleaser, pitting wisdom and experience against youthful arrogance and gullibility.
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Examiner.com
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0
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By Adam Lippe
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Oct 08, 2010
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A podcast q+a with Karl Urban, one of the many stars of Red....
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Boxoffice Magazine
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4
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By Mark Keizer
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Oct 06, 2010
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Schwentke keeps things light: light on big laughs, light on unique action set pieces and light on any sense that these game but retired spies are too old for this crap.
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IGN Movies UK
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8
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By Chris Tilly
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Oct 05, 2010
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Red is long, predictable, derivative, and without doubt one of the most entertaining experiences to be had in a cinema this year.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
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4
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By Emanuel Levy
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Oct 01, 2010
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UGO
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8
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By Jordan Hoffman
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Oct 01, 2010
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Schwentke and his cast have taken some decent enough source material and polished into a small gem.
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Reeling Reviews
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5
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By Robin Clifford
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Oct 01, 2010
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EricDSnider.com
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6
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By Eric D. Snider
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Oct 01, 2010
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eFilmCritic.com
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8
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By Greg Muskewitz
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Oct 01, 2010
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Cinematical
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0
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By Todd Gilchrist
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Sep 30, 2010
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an engaging, well-made action comedy that benefits from the talents of its decidedly mature cast members, even if it unspools with a pace better suited to their generation than the moviegoers that grew up watching their earlier movies.
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Variety
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0
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By Justin Chang
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Sep 30, 2010
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An amusing, light-footed caper about a team of aging CIA veterans rudely forced out of retirement.
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Hollywood Reporter
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0
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By John DeFore
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Sep 30, 2010
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Although tailor-made for genre fans, it benefits from flavors of humor and romance that keep its appeal from being fanboy-only.
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