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(1 - 36) of 36 OFCS Rating: 60% Fresh Page   1   A "A clinic for how this genre should be done."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark A "It’s one not to miss."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf 4.5/5 "Spartan plays out like a classic mind game, and an awfully good one at that."   Filmcritic.com   Christopher Null 3/4 "The trajectory of the film's storyline is impossible to predict, as it changes every 20 minutes or so."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C+ "Too preposterous to mean much."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2.5/4 "Spartan is a technical achievement, impressive for the things it does well and unfortunate that so much more might have been improved."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 1/4 "Mamet makes movies for people who love hearing themselves talk."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez B "It's good, enthralling stuff, as far as it goes. It's nothing new, for sure, but it's old tricks that have been repackaged very well."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider A "Magnificent thriller screenwriting, a genre masterpiece. "   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2.5/4 "Este es un caso de excelentes actores atrapados en las limitaciones de un guión defectuoso y una dirección regular."   Doncinema.com   Flavio J. Arosemena 2/4 "...feels rather synthetic...transparent suspense that carries some mediocre thrills...pretentious-minded political pap."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C "A serious disappointment...one Mamet shell-game that's not worth laying down a bet on."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3.5/5 "Spartan is a cautionary tale that will appeal to those who have had enough of the unreality concocted by Washington handlers and political power players."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat B "Cool-edged simplicity...a crime thriller for the terrorist age."   Mixed Reviews   Gabriel Shanks 3/4 "An entertainingly over-the-top tale of good, evil, sex, and betrayal."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3.5/4 "deflates the well-worn Tom Clancy-ish spy genre of its emphasis on straightforward plot-point-to-plot-point narrative and refills it with a politically charged undercurrent"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 7/10 "Entertaining, riddled with movement, suspenseful and packed with intrigue, intrigue and oh, did I mention...intrigue?"   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 7/10 "...the action here is tense and suspenseful from beginning to end, with very little filler and very few distractions."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio ""Spartan" isn't your conventional political thriller. It ventures off into uncharted territory, not just for the genre, but for Mamet."   Light Views   John Larsen C+ "Writer/director David Mamet ("Heist") has fashioned a twisty thriller, but his highly cynical story is at constant odds with his trademark repetitive Mamet-speak"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2.5/5 "David Mamet's political thriller about the disappearance of the president's daughter is an unsatisfying slipknot of a film -- it looks tight and elaborate, but give it a tug and it goes flat."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 6/10 "Mamet could not put both intelligence and action in this political thriller and gave the latter priority. The story has some interesting twists."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 4/4 "Spartan demands you participate. I hope I'm not the only person who finds that refreshing."   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "Crisp. Cool. Minimal. Spartan."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson C "He commits the very last sin his characters would permit -- he loses control with multiply paranoid layers that wear out instead of boring in. "   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow C+ "Barely memorable."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager "The thing that makes David Mamet’s 'Spartan' so thrilling and exciting to watch is not the story...but the specific way that he has chosen to tell the story."   Critic Doctor   Peter Sobczynski 2.5/5 "The main problem is that the narrative is evasive...; we can't trust Mamet as a storyteller!"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B "Although the story deteriorates in the last act, most of the movie is of high quality."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B- "... the mechanics are contrived (but Mamet's) crisp dialogue, and Kilmer's underplayed intensity, gives the film an engaging gravitas."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker "Spartan is the same old stuff, but now it's been thoroughly Mametized, like a spray-on treatment you could spritz out of a can."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 4/10 "When the suspenseful plot is ultimately unraveled, it turns out to be a cynical, cinematic riddle that makes little sense."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 3.5/4 "An engrossing, densely plotted thriller."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight 0.5/4 "Mamet is now only as he has ever been: a good academic and a really bad filmmaker, though on the bright side, he did resist casting one of his mannequin wives this time around"   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf Read review   Nitrate Online   Cynthia Fuchs  (1 - 36) of 36 OFCS Rating: 60% Fresh Page   1