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Movie Overview
Cast
• Sandra Bullock
• Ryan Gosling
• Michael Pitt
Director
• Barbet Schroeder
MPAA Rating
R - violence, language, a sex scene, and brief drug use
Murder by Numbers (2002)

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OFCS Rating: 21% Rotten
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3/4
"...the plot weaves us into a complex web."  NutzWorld  Blake French

3/4
"Lesson learned: Never ask Ben Chaplin to lose his British accent."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

B-
"The conventional crime film seems lively when it isn't trying too hard to be so cute."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

3/4
"A psychological thriller that is as thoroughly involving and taut as it is intelligently written."  DustinPutman.com  Dustin Putman

2.5/4
"Forget the misleading title, what's with the unexplained baboon cameo?"  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

C
"It thinks it is original and incisive, when really it's the same old movie-of-the-week."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

C
"The debut script by Tony Gayton completely betrays the director's compelling tone."  Film Blather  Eugene Novikov

2/4
"The fuzzy math doesn't add up in the Sandra Bullock by-the-numbers thriller "Murder by Numbers""  Movie Eye  Frank Ochieng

C
"Proves more lumbering and obvious than dramatically strong or intellectually riveting...Don't count on it for anything beyond a modest level of competence."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

2.5/4
"There are things to like about Murder By Numbers -- but, in the end, the disparate elements don't gel."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

2/4
"plods through its psychological murder-mystery trappings like well-worn clothes, and the edges are definitely starting to look frayed"  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

2/4
"The script is too mainstream and the psychology too textbook to intrigue."  Palo Alto Weekly  Jeanne Aufmuth

4/10
"About on par with any mediocre episode of most any TV show featuring a homicide detective."  Screen It!  Jim Judy

5/10
"Basically, it's a Hitchcockian thriller wannabee with video rental written all over it."  JoBlo's Movie Emporium  JoBlo

5/10
"Despite the presence of Ms. Bullock, Murder By Numbers doesn't add up to very much, and like those old paint-by-numbers kits, the movie can easily be set aside and forgotten."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

2/5
"118 - the number of minutes this movies runs. 22 - the number of minutes it took to bore me to death. 116 - the number of minutes I want back."  3BlackChicks Review  Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

3.5/5
"An interesting idea turned into a movie about too many things. Maybe complexity in today?s dumbed down cinema is good; but complexity is not the same as "too much.""  Cinerina  Karina Montgomery

8/10
"Murder by Numbers nos obliga a identificarnos no con los representantes de la ley, sino con los autores del crímen."  Cinenganos  Luis Martinez

2/5
"100% shock-free."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

2.5/4
"The movie’s major and most devastating flaw is its reliance on formula, though, and it’s quite enough to lessen the overall impact the movie could have had."  Mark Reviews Movies  Mark Dujsik

"I wish I could ask for Sandy's gun and badge. She's an unintentional menace to moviegoers."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

2/4
"Everything its title implies, a standard-issue crime drama spat out from the Tinseltown assembly line."  TheMovieReport.com  Michael Dequina

3/5
" predictable, even manufactured, a sort of movie by numbers. "  Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies  Nell Minow

3/5
"Dizer que "Cálculo Mortal" é uma decepção é constatar o óbvio."  Cinema em Cena  Pablo Villaca

2.5/4
"Some will not like this film because it doesn't offer easy answers. It doesn't have the usual, pat Hollywood ending."  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten

C
"Might have passed as the latest installment of the similarly titled Murder She Wrote franchise."  Eclipse Magazine  Sean O'Connell

1.5/4
"A subtle variation on I Spit On Your Grave in which our purported heroine pathologically avenges a hatred for men."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw

0/10
Read review  Modamag.com  Brian Orndorf

4/10
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OFCS Rating: 21% Rotten
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