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Susan Stark, Detroit News: De Niro and rising star Edward Burns have just enough knowing, gritty give-and-take in 15 Minutes to make you hungry for more. Read more
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: [The premise is] rolled up in a formulaic young cop-old cop action flick like a sparkler in a rug. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: A picture that has a crowd-stopping impact. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: One of the most brazen pieces of blame-shifting in exploitation-picture history. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Warhol's statement was just a one-liner, and a movie requires more than that to run two hours. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Watching it is like spending time with a know-it-all teenager; the kid isn't neccessarily wrong, but he's definitely irritating. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Its savage indictment of the nexus involving media, crime and a voracious public is a cinematic statement difficult to ignore. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Ultra-violent, blatantly manipulative and politically reactionary. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A jumping off point for showy, contrived, borderline exploitation sequences that fail to tie together because they're not really there to do anything but sell themselves as money shot thrills. Read more
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Jan Stuart, Newsday: The filmmaker tries to eat his cake and have it as well, giving his audience ample servings of what we presumably want while slapping our wrists for it at the same time. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It doesn't feel like a cookie-cutter cop thriller, and, on top of that, it's actually about something. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A real movie, rough edges and all, and not another link from the sausage factory. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: A tiresome screed that purports to teach us a lesson about violence and the media even as it serves up much more than the minimum daily requirement of stabbings, bloody gunshot wounds and relentless stomach punches. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: A shrewd thriller. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: The film seems exaggerated strictly to pray upon latent public fears in a calculated, predatory way. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: The reality of 'unscripted' programming et al. trumps the critique from the gitgo. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Herzfeld's a secondhand-meister, simply regenerating themes, styles and a story line that we've all seen -- and tired of -- somewhere before. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: The movie is nothing if not ambitious. The movie is nothing if not overdone. The movie is also, well, pretty much ... nothing. Read more