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(1 - 36) of 36 OFCS Rating: 61% Fresh Page   1   3.5/5 "Mr Brooks is a new spin on murder-by-numbers: one fascinating character, two outstanding performances, and subplots too numerous for the film's coherence or the viewer's sanity."   Channel 4 Film   Anton Bitel "As psychological thrillers go, 'Mr. Brooks' ranks above average because of Kevin Costner's riveting performance."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker A- "There is an actual brain at work here, and it feels refreshing."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark B+ "It's an odd piece of entertainment, and requires a viewer flexible enough to journey into the belly of the beast and somehow enjoy it. Me? I found it irresistible at times."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf B- ""Mr. Brooks" is a neat blend of satire and suspense thriller that nearly overcomes its greatest flaw, a ridiculous subplot with Demi Moore as a rich woman turned cop."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "That thing doesn't quite fit a category, it's not really chilling and only inconsistently satirical or funny. Still, it is often entertaining, strange and bumpy enough that you can forgive the stiff parts."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs A- "Mr. Brooks proves an unusual, occasionally awkward blend of suspense, drama and camp that's surprisingly fun."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 2.5/4 "...the film ultimately suffers from an egregiously uneven vibe that's compounded by a distractingly overlong running time."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair B- "Its wickedness is irresistible."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3.5/4 "A fascinating and thoroughly unsettling exploration into the mind of a serial killer, Mr. Brooks could well be the smartest, most astute thriller of its kind in several years."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 1/5 "Hubiera sido una estupenda comedia negra si no fuera que el director Bruce A. Evans se tomó el asunto en serio. Firme candidata a la peor película del año."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B "Even its most absurd ideas are tantalizingly creative and sinister, enough to make you want to see them through rather than scoff and turn away."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3/4 "It's a tasty stew for anyone with a macabre stomach lining. It's sense of humor is dependent on your ability to connect with your inner psychopath and root for the bad guy."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress B- "Though it's not as smooth as it might have been and by the close has gotten too clever by half, this trashy thriller delivers the goods more often than not."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/5 "Preposterous characters surround a serial killer in a strained and unbelievable story."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3/4 "Mr. Brooks is a curious mix of the campy and the intelligent, of high concept and low psychology. In spite of these contradictions, or perhaps because of them, it works."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/5 "Alternately intriguing and ridiculous."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 3/4 "... a nice, decent, all-American psychopath like Mr. Brooks is pretty welcome company for a few fraught and well-crafted hours in the tense and muted darkness of the movie theater."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 4/10 "With some plot developments that aren't smart and/or believable enough, the film might look good and feature a decent name cast, but it just isn't that thrilling."   Screen It!   Jim Judy 1.5/5 "It's not that Costner is a bad actor. He's just a one-note actor... like a male Julia Roberts. And this just isn't his note."   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr B- "Evans delivers mood, tone and acting in this seductively quiet and unhysterical film, but so overstuffs his screenplay with plot he very nearly upends his own project."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 1.5/4 "Plays like Red Dragon reimagined by filmmakers who think they're too smart or too sophisticated or too high-minded to give themselves over to the sordid, sleazy and flat-out nasty."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 1.5/3 "El personaje de Brooks es bastante interesante, y los primeros minutos de metraje prometen, pero luego todo se diluye en el maremágnum de gentes que pululan por pantalla"   Off-Off-Critica   MalaBesta 3/4 "Reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels, and that is flattering praise."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik C- "Where the character cannot maintain well-adjusted behavior over sociopathic indulgences, the film fails to strike a balance between the serious and outlandish."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "Serial killers are people too, with hopes and dreams and loving spouses and kids who drive them crazy. That's the repulsive theme of this revolting film..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson C "But for a movie about a guy who plans everything so meticulously, the script is a mess, with impossible coincidences and one big fake-out that is nothing but a giant bloody speed-bump on the way to the who-cares-at-this-point conclusion."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 1.5/4 "Mr. Brooks is one deliriously ridiculous movie, and a bona fide contender for status as a camp classic."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 3/5 "A dinâmica entre Hurt e Costner carrega Instinto Secreto: exibindo uma imensa química em suas cenas, os dois atores estabelecem um sentimento misto de tensão e camaradagem entre seus personagens."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 2.5/5 "Smith is ... an insufferable, motor-mouthed douchebag that the audience will be begging for someone, anyone, to kill. In short, it's the role Cook was born to play."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 4/5 "Twisty and seductive, this classy dramatic thriller has so much going on that we almost forget we're watching a trashy potboiler."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 3.5/5 "A high-budget psycho-thriller that lets two of our more "sedate" leading men cut loose with some entertainingly juicy performances."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg 2.5/5 "A meticulous study on the "how" of serial killing. It just skims over the all-important "why.""   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell "Costner seems to be having some fun playing the respectable guy with an evil secret, but [director] Evans' murky storytelling just weighs him down. Cook has all the charisma of a misshapen mud pie."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 6/10 "Violent and implausible, it's Costner's dark field of screams."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 36) of 36 OFCS Rating: 61% Fresh Page   1