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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Reindeer Games is too tricky to let the audience join the fun. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: The film's action sequences explode with excitement as well as a clarity that's often missing from contemporary action vignettes. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Narratively, the movie is similar to a casino game: you're not sure where you are and the house has the advantage. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The chief idiocy of this movie, even allowing for its modest 'B' flick intentions, is its car-wreck of coincidences and contrivances. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Watchable but sometimes quite ludicrous. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: The games it plays are more ambitious than successful. Read more
Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle: The movie is often amusing, thanks to Affleck's excellent deadpan delivery of flippant lines in the face of loaded guns and to Sinise's scenery-chewing villain. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: A pileup of impossible-to-believe situations that just keep getting worse with every line uttered by anyone who happens to be on screen. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Frankenheimer ... treats this trashy, disreputable material with a brute squareness so leaden and dour it's practically Teutonic. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I wish I'd had a stopwatch, to clock how many minutes are spent while one character holds a gun to another character's head and gabs. Read more
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Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Reindeer Games is basically a test of your ability to accept a slushpile of implausible twisteroos and Tarantino-style conceits. Read more