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The Code Review

Other Critics provided by Metacritic.com

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

  • 3.0
    44

    out of 100

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

  • 20

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    Choose to pass this one up.

  • 30

    out of 100

    The New York Times Dave Kehr

    Probably should have stayed on a shelf back in Paris.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Variety

    Gallic gangster actioner fuses many disparate generic and stylistic conventions, but, although script by co-star Samy Naceri's brother was purportedly pared down from several hundred pages, it still bears the weight of its pretensions.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden

    Although it offers no new angles on the story engines of loyalty and revenge, the French film boasts an intriguing milieu and the off-center, hair-trigger intensity of Samy Naceri as a crime boss.

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  • 67

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Doesn't have much time for refinement of image or elegance of plot. What it's got instead is an insider's feel for the local, excitable hoodlum life and speech.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

    The atmospheric, richly detailed La Mentale has terrific vitality with its volatile mixture of alternating camaraderie and savagery.

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