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(1 - 40) of 40 OFCS Rating: 60% Fresh Page   1   3/5 "[Hopkins and Gosling's] courtroom power struggle holds this Fractured drama together."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke "Watching Anthony Hopkins in 'Fracture' is like observing a master painter create a work of art."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker C "Hopkins and Gosling are terrific, but not even the work of their lives could have saved this ludicrous, and ultimately tedious, effort."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark D+ "It's a thrill factory that's been shut down and outsourced to yawns, and I can't figure out why. Oh yeah, it's Ryan Gosling."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf 2/5 "If one was making a case for how TV drama has eclipsed film in recent years, unnecessary product like Fracture would be Exhibit A."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Barsanti "Part police procedural, part courtroom hijinks, and part cunning murder plot, Gregory Hoblit's new movie brings the usual canards."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs B+ "Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling lend taut, entertaining performances to this predictable, but smartly executed, film."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 3/4 "The main draw, of course, is watching Hopkins and Gosling go head-to-head. And both are more than up to the challenge."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 2.5/4 "Distinctly uneven yet essentially entertaining..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair B "Delivers the thrills and makes us care if the diabolically clever killer will get his comeuppance."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 4/10 "postupci likova se svode na uobi%u010Dajene kli%u0161eje"   Index.hr   Dragan Antulov 2/4 "The talent in front of the camera is too good to be wasted on something this trivial."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman B "The central mystery is a tidy piece of prestidigitation, and the movie that surrounds it is smart enough to be worth paying attention to."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "Fracture becomes just another stop on the Hoblit hack train and an aptly titled one at that."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress 2.5/4 "The slick ambience behind Fracture could be penetrating yet misleading. Hopkins's "Lecter-lite" persona adds some pathos to this old-fashioned yet stylistic whodunit."   TheWorldJournal.com   Frank Ochieng C+ "An efficient enough legal potboiler...But Hoblit set the bar high with Primal Fear, and this attempted follow-up, though mildly engaging, doesn't quite clear it."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A thoroughly thought-provoking thriller with fascinating characters and riveting performances by Ryan Gosling and Anthony Hopkins."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat C+ "Though lamebrained and cockamamie from start to finish, the fine performances of the two leads, who aren't just phoning it in, hoists Fracture far above the level of comparable Halle Berry vehicles."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 3/4 "With Anthony Hopkins in the lead and a screenplay that was composed by writers not merely interested in fitting together a jigsaw puzzle of clichés, this movie is gruesomely engaging."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/4 "The real pleasure in Fracture is watching Hopkins and Gosling, the elder statesman and brash young firebrand of the current cinema’s greatest actors, go at it."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 6/10 "A light psychological thriller that works better on a technical level than a thematic or character-centric one."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen B "very ordinary screenplay that can only be recommended due to the outstanding performances of its combatants"   Old School Reviews   John A. Nesbit 7/10 "Even if you don't leave the movie entirely satisfied, you won't have had a bad time, either."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio "Fracture is the kind of polished cat-and-mouse movie thriller that depends entirely on the cat and the mouse having read and agreed to the script in advance."   Film.com   Jonathan F. Richards 3/5 "click for full review"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 2.5/4.0 "Good but not great, interesting but not intriguing, and about twenty minutes too long."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 2/5 "Ultimately, I was rooting for the killer, hoping he'd get the good ol' O.J. treatment in the courtroom."   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr B- "...the film's final twist was screamingly obvious to this viewer, but those who do not spot it should have a very good time. Those who do can entertain themselves watching Hopkins and Gosling entertain themselves."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3/4 "The film never degenerates into the mano-a-mano showdown between the grinning psycho and the cocky but fundamentally decent lawyer that's become de rigueur in big-budget Hollywood thrillers."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 1.5/3 "La película habría ganado bastante si en lugar de tanto plan maquiavélico hubiesen usado la defensa Chewbacca alguna vez."   Off-Off-Critica   MalaBesta 3/4 "Most of the pleasure of the film comes from watching Anthony Hopkins playing elaborate mind games and seeing Ryan Gosling unload all kinds of nervous tics as his character comes close to bowing to the pressure."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik C- "...as satisfying as a weeks-long case being dismissed on a technicality. It makes all that time feel like a monumental waste."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer 2.5/4 "I'm glad I saw it, and there were some very admirable elements to the film. Yet I have to acknowledge that it could have capitalized on the good stuff a little more than it did."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan 2/4 "Implausible, overblown, and increasingly ridiculous, this cat-and-mouse yarn begins intriguingly but then boxes itself into a corner."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2.5/5 "For all his preparation and planning, he ends up neglecting one legal angle that anyone who's watched a half dozen episodes of Law and Order would've picked up on."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 3.5/5 "With a film this gleefully convoluted, we know we'll never figure it out before the screenwriters are ready to tell us. So we hang on and enjoy the ride."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/5 "There's nothing brilliant or revolutionary about Fracture. It's simply a well-made crime thriller, period."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg "You come away feeling as if you have been watching a battle between two second-tier opponents."   ESplatter   Steve Biodrowski 8/10 "Intense, intriguing, challenging and provocative - it's hard to stop thinking about."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 5/10 "At no moment does this stop feeling like an especially glossy and especially joyless episode of Law and Order."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 40) of 40 OFCS Rating: 60% Fresh Page   1