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(1 - 50) of 59 OFCS Rating: 79% Fresh Page   12   > Next 2.5/5 "blends modern-day politics with good old-fashioned derring-do to explore the grey areas (in a very grey-looking London) between freedom, justice, dissidence and retribution."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel B+ "...an endlessly ballsy comic book adaptation that is sly and smart -- something that more and more comic book films are becoming these days."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 9/10 "Unlike political thrillers that are content to wallow in their dissatisfaction with the state of the world, V demands that we take personal responsibility for it..."   Freeze Dried Movies   Brian Juergens B+ "When it chooses to be, V for Vendetta is a gangbusters and incisive indictment of the scary direction this big blue ball is headed in."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf 4/5 "This is pure post-9/11 Orwell, a great, angry screed against scapegoating and fearmongering in the seemingly endless war on terrorism."   ToxicUniverse.com   Chris Barsanti B+ "V For Vendetta is a glorious piece of pop culture subversive cinema that operates on manifold levels."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Violence can be used for various purposes, good, ill, and incoherent. This would be the primary observation made by V for Vendetta."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3/6 "The Wachowskis and freshman director James McTeigue quickly decide that sloppy, repetitive action scenes are more compelling than examining the ideas they raise."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger A- "Spills blood more political than corporeal, potentially endangering its box office yet certifying its future as the most talked-about film thus far in 2006."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 4/4 "...an astonishingly pertinent and thoroughly engaging piece of work."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "Osama must be smiling in his cave!"   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 5/10 "jo%u0161 jedno silovanje strip-umjetnosti od strane holivudskih licemjera"   Index.hr   Dragan Antulov 3/4 "This film couldn't have come at a more opportune time."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 4/5 "Un film incómodo y desafiante sobre cuestiones plenamente vigentes en el mundo de hoy, que dejará insatisfechos a quienes busquen sólo entretenimiento."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B "It may go a little overboard in its desire to convince us of both its coolness and its insightfulness, but it's fast-paced and smart enough to keep us onboard anyway."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 4/4 "Alan Moore, director James McTeigue and the Wachowski Bros. may be using the equivalent of bombs to slam home the point, but occasionally it takes a loud noise to wake us up."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress A "Brilliant and angry."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov "... manages to succeed as both great entertainment and a thoughtful reflection on current politics."   DVD Review   Felix Gonzalez Jr. "Daredevil in agitator garb"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce 3/4 "Explosively imaginative and colorfully conveyed, this velocity-driven vehicle dabbles in the right combination of cynicism and surrealism...a sprawling thriller."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng D+ "Visually striking but ponderous and self-important...the serious issues it tries to raise are cheapened by its combination of pretentious preaching and comic-book derring-do."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3.5/4 "A visually sumptuous concoction that combines political allegory, bloody action, and a few stunning cinematic moments into a solid piece of entertainment."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/5 "Its ultimate message is that no one should be afraid of big-budget movies, no matter how daring they might seem."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "The most avowedly political movie in ages!"   Sci-Fi Movie Page   James O'Ehley 8/10 "Même si l'effort manque diablement de subtilité on ne pourra réfuter l'extraordinaire doigté caractérisant le scénario des frères Wachowski et la réalisation de James McTeigue"   Panorama   Jean-François Vandeuren 7/10 "Has no concerns of following any normal conventions of entertaining its audience and seems more occupied with the loftier goals of getting viewers to consider its ideas."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 8/10 "Awesome! Easily the best movie to come out so far this year..."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 3/4 "Every time Mr. Weaving is on screen the spirit of Mr. Moore's character comes alive. Those moments, at least, are worth fighting for."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 4/5 "V for Vendetta is visually stunning, marvellously rich and possibly the first great Alan Moore adaptation."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi 7/10 "...a somewhat old-fashioned adventure flick, filled with action, humor, romance, politics, and the kind of swashbuckling that audiences hadn't seen in movies for many years."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 3.5/5 "it's not Sin City, but it's probably the most acomplished blovkbuster we'll see all summer"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 5/5 "."   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 5/5 "f the fanboys out there take umbrage with something in it, I'm sorry, I loved it, but we've disagreed on comic adaptations before. I saw it twice opening weekend, if that's any indication."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 1.5/4 "Portman reminds one less of Falconetti and more of a Paris Hilton-esque socialite who accidentally wandered into Supercuts."   Slant Magazine   Keith Uhlich 3.0/4.0 "... what better way to promote an idea than to disguise it as entertainment, hmm?"   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 1.5/5 "tedious, boring and ill-conceived... Rather than being anti-fascist, V for Vendetta comes off as being pro-terrorist"   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 4/4 "An absolutely incendiary work."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest B+ "The Wachowskis are back and Rush Limbaugh will not be amused."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 4/5 "Lo que realmente sacude y hace reflexionar, radica en el paralelismo de este supuesto mundo alternativo con los gobiernos actuales. Buen ejercicio de los Wachowski."   Cinenganos   Luis Martinez 3/4 "Brutally gorgeous and seething with incendiary images, the Wachowski brothers' monumental call to revolution, based on Alan Moore's gloomy graphic novel about a masked madman who restores anarchy to the U.K., is a vivid but muddled pulp political parable."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 3.5/4 "A mild triumph of Hollywood filmmaking in that the film garners its thrills not from mindless action and special effects but from ideas."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik 7/10 "This film is a funhouse of political ideas, some of them intentionally repugnant. You may not entirely agree with the politics, but the film is darkly colorful and fun."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper "The hero/antihero of Vendetta,... is -- thrillingly -- Batman and the Joker all at once; he's Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "Under the guise of comic book entertainment, the movie asks ambitious questions and raises provocative issues. The end result is uniquely cool."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ "Keeps the source's gnarly moral issues, amps up the explosions and thins out the subplots to delight audiences looking for two-plus hours of solid entertainment and willing to do some mental work to get there."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow D "An unbearably talkative affair with virtually nothing sane to say."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 4/5 "De certa forma, é possível que V de Vingança seja um dos filmes mais corajosos realizados por Hollywood depois dos atentados de 11 de Setembro."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 3.5/5 "Aside from a handful of fight scenes (only one of which evokes any serious eye-rolling), the Wachowskis actually seem to have given serious effort to telling a story"   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 4/5 "So gorgeously visual and thematically resonant that we don't really mind if the characters are a bit shallow."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 3/5 "When the script sticks close to Alan Moore, it works best. Which, sadly, is seldom."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves  (1 - 50) of 59 OFCS Rating: 79% Fresh Page   12   > Next