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Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune: There's a hint of Shakespeare's goriest tragedies here, sucked dry of any attendant heart, emotional depth or compelling human interest. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Dead Man's Shoes is for the true connoisseur: a tight, well-made, evocative piece of filmmaking that recalls the extreme emotions in some of Sam Peckinpah's genre-benders about retribution and vigilante justice. Read more
Noel Murray, AV Club: Meadows [makes] a stringy pulp premise into something personal and passionate which builds from relaxed comedy into existential dread... Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: In a swift 86 minutes, director Meadows and co-writer/star Considine give us a methodical, handsome, emotionally intelligent version of the revenge flick. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: In the end, the picture's more pulp than juice. Read more
Luke Y. Thompson, Village Voice: Dead 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. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A poor fit for anyone. And that includes even the undiscriminating gorehounds looking for yet another bloody slice of payback. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: Like Park Chan-wook's Vengeance trilogy, it explores the nature of the beast of revenge, leaving the audience in a sweat of dread. Read more