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Azumi Review

Other Critics provided by Metacritic.com

Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 3.0
    49

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Mixed or average reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 30

    out of 100

    Village Voice Michael Atkinson

    If you're considering the scenario via Japan's ubiquitous pedo-porn tendencies, you're too educated for this exhaustive, manga-based bloodbath, which trails after these angsty teenyboppers on a scorched-fake-earth path through hundreds of growling baddies of every genre size and type.

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  • 40

    out of 100

    The New York Times Manohla Dargis

    The director, Ryuhei Kitamura, whose earlier films include the cult film "Versus," brings nothing new to the samurai-swordsman game other than some styling shorts for the whelps and a miniskirt for Azumi.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Variety Ronnie Scheib

    Inevitable comparisons to Quentin Tarentino's femme-centered carnage extravaganza "Kill Bill" are not unwarranted insofar as both films featurefeature an abstract, self-conscious, and decidedly post-modern approach to a moribund genre.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times

    An uneven effort overall that when it is working has a strange, engaging energy that is often overturned by an uncertain staidness.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

    Unfortunately, the film itself -- though it contains some superbly staged and highly lavish action sequences -- lacks the tautness of its heroine.

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  • 63

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

    A movie of such cheerful craziness and nonstop ferocity that you can't take it seriously for a second.

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