Metacritic Movie Ratings
Knight and Day Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 75

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  Diaz has one of the most winning grins in the movies. Basically, what I wanted was more of it. Some of that Cary Grant dialog. More flirtation. More of a feeling the characters, not the production, were the foreground. More of the stars.

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• 75

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  It's a quintessential movie hybrid: a romantic thriller with exciting high-speed chases, brisk comedy and exotic scenery.

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• 60

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan

  It's hardly a perfect film, not even close, but it is the most entertaining made-for-adults studio movie of the summer, and one of the reasons it works at all is the great skill and commitment Cruise brings to the starring role.

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• 58

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  In this oddly uninvolving caper, the size of skulls makes its own statement: The producers assume that audience interest in movie stars is bigger than audience interest in characters.

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• 50

  out of 100

  VarietyJustin Chang

  A high-energy, low-impact caper-comedy that labors to bring a measure of wit, romance and glamour to an overworked spy-thriller template.

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• 50

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt

  Laziness permeates the film from the inexplicable escapes to the neglected romance.

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• 30

  out of 100

  The New York TimesA.O. Scott

  A loud, seemingly interminable, and altogether incoherent entry in the preposterous and proliferating "action-comedy" genre.

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• 10

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  The source of this movie's energy is near-perpetual desperation. You can see it in Tom Cruise's fixed grin, and in the mad proliferation of unspecial effects.

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