Metacritic Movie Ratings
Shutter Island Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 90

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey

  Martin Scorsese has created a divinely dark and devious brain tease of a movie in the best noir tradition with its smarter than you'd think cops, their tougher than you'd imagine cases to crack and enough nods to the classic genre for an all-night parlor game.

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• 88

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  The film's primary effect is on the senses. Everything is brought together into a disturbing foreshadow of dreadful secrets.

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• 80

  out of 100

  VarietyTodd McCarthy

  Even when it's clear Scorsese has decided to employ fakery and allow it to be obvious, it's done with elegance and beauty.

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• 75

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman

  Shutter Island holds you, but it doesn't grip you. It's as if Scorsese had put his filmmaking fever on psychotropic drugs.

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• 70

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt

  It's a pleasure to experience Scorsese as a circus master. One just hopes he doesn't continue in this vein.

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• 63

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  Despite its flaws, Shutter Island is worth seeing for the palpably nightmarish and gothic world conceived by Scorsese

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• 20

  out of 100

  The New York TimesA.O. Scott

  Something TERRIBLE is afoot. Sadly, that something turns out to be the movie itself.

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