A Simple Plan 1998

Critics score:
90 / 100

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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A Simple Plan is lean, elegant, and emotionally complex - a marvel of backwoods classicism. Read more

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Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Raimi takes the old story about dishonour among thieves and renders it fresh through the calm, cool, steady assurance of the telling. Read more

Glenn Lovell, Variety: Perfect capers gone horribly, inexorably awry have always kept audiences squirming. But just when we think we've seen it all, Raimi offers a few new wrinkles. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: As straightforward in narrative as it is gut-wrenching in effect, A Simple Plan is a sort of slow-motion skid down an icy blacktop- it's a movie you watch with a mounting sense of dread. Read more