Payback Review

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

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  3.0

  55

  out of 100

  Metascore^®
  Mixed or average reviews
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  critic review scores.

• 40

  out of 100

  The Hollywood Reporter

  Aesthetically, it's desultory. Talking-heads rants and ruminations are further stultified by the amateurish aesthetics. Visually, zooms, pans and filler moments enervate the message. Most annoying, the dour music grates throughout; its hollow grinding, we'd guess, is an attempt to impart profundity.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Village Voice

  Cinematic globe-trotting doesn't necessarily trump reading a good book, it turns out; then again, more movies should be burdened with the flaw of being too intellectually curious.

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