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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayFor all Dead Man's Shoes' well-paced, well-observed boondocks melodrama, its premise seems simultaneously slender and overheated.
- 80Film ThreatFilm ThreatAn original, complex, and utterly gruesome revenge parable, and never portrays its characters as black and white. Considine handles his performance like a pro, and only adds to the pure skill behind it.
- 75New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardThis is no simplistic vigilante movie. Like Park Chan-wook's "Vengeance" trilogy, it explores the nature of the beast of revenge, leaving the audience in a sweat of dread.
- The always fantastic Paddy Considine evokes both sensitivity and explosiveness.
- 63New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickVery slowly builds to a powerful climax for this arty cross between "Straw Dogs" and "First Blood."
- 63TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThough the story is formulaic, the bleakly naturalistic performances give it an uncomfortable sting.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe imagery is exotically grungy and jumbled by flashback, but in the end, the picture's more pulp than juice.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterRay BennettThe Hollywood ReporterRay BennettThe film is filled with deeply unpleasant and stupid people whose vapid speech is largely incomprehensible due to thick regional accents.
- 40VarietyDerek ElleyVarietyDerek ElleyFilm plays as a quirky Brit riff on everything from U.S. slasher pics to revenge oaters but without Meadows' usual psychological complexity.
- 40Village VoiceVillage VoiceDead Man's Shoes is all about revenge, but in trying to be one of those serious revenge films that questions violence while indulging in it, it manages to keep virtually all the characters unsympathetic and uninteresting.