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88
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
A dark, grisly, horrifying and intelligent thriller.
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88
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
It's intriguing, appalling, savvy, nasty, grossly unsettling -- you may not like what you see, but you'll definitely be affected by the sight.
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75
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
This homicide thriller has a tantalizingly morbid atmosphere of unease.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
Placing style above coherence, Seven glosses over plot points and shows a weakness for cheap, lurid effects.
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70
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Noticeable skill has gone into the making of Seven, but it's hard to take much pleasure in that.
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70
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
It's not the identity of the killer that gives Seven its kick -- it's the way Fincher raises mystery to the level of moral provocation.
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70
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
A gruesome detective-thriller about a serial killer who ices egregious offenders of the seven deadly sins, portends an unpalatable combination of formulaic writing and unmitigated nastiness.
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70
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Washington Post Rita Kempley
A decidedly medieval enterprise, darker in text and tone than a Gothic cathedral by the light of the moon.
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63
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USA Today Mike Clark
Director David Fincher shovels on more gloom than even the serial killer genre can sustain in the murkily moody, but self-defeating, Seven.
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30
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The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
Not even bags of body parts, a bitten-off tongue or a man forced to cut off a pound of his own flesh keep it from being dull. [22 September 1995, p. C18]
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