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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's straightforward and nongimmicky (you don't have to wonder whodunit because we're told in the first few minutes), involves a minimum of blood and gore, and holds our interest nicely. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The strengths of director Gregory Hoblit's drama may well have nothing to do with what gets gets filmgoers off the couch and into the multiplex. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: What makes Fracture hum is the way Hopkins bares his teeth, twitches his nostrils, and trains his shiny pinprick Lecter eyes on his co-star. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The main interest here is the juxtaposing of Gosling's Method acting with Hopkins's more classical style, a spectacle even more mesmerizing than the settings. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: This hugely entertaining thriller is what's needed to banish a winter-long case of movie blues. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Fracture may be Hollywood slick, but it's got a niftily intricate plot and some explosive mano a mano acting that keep you riveted. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Not since Lecter has a role been this well suited to Hopkins, whose intelligence and pristine formality as an actor often make him seem alien. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The movie seems so content to be smarter than you're expecting that it never amounts to more than a talky tease. What's breezy about the first half of the picture turns logy in the second. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: The best way to enjoy it is to suspend your disbelief and soak up the actorly tete-a-tete that pits wily veteran Anthony Hopkins against young gun Ryan Gosling in the kind of courtroom potboiler that can be fun if you let it. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: The movie's logic fails at the end -- it betrays a criminal blind spot in its reasoning -- but you're best off not subjecting it to any prolonged analysis. Don't think. Just watch. Read more
Tom Charity, CNN.com: A smart and snappy thriller that makes light work of its ethical dilemmas, Fracture is a little too neat and tidy to stick in the mind for long, but the Hopkins-Gosling pairing is choice, and neither comes up short. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: It's possible that audiences don't even care anymore if a film makes sense as long it's entertaining. Fracture is both. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Fracture is no Silence of the Lambs. In fact, it's no Primal Fear. Anthony Hopkins may well be smarter than all of us put together, but his busy career sometimes has more breadth than wit. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Director Gregory Hoblit can't seem to find any real heart in this story. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It may be obvious that Fracture is working on us, playing us, but that's its pleasure. It makes overwrought manipulation seem more than a basic instinct. Read more
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: Fracture is the kind of polished cat-and-mouse movie thriller that depends entirely on the cat and the mouse having read and agreed to the script in advance. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Although the direction and the clever script are far above average, what truly keeps Fracture riveting is the battle of wills and wits waged by its costars, old lion Anthony Hopkins and crouching tiger Ryan Gosling. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Fracture takes a legal procedural that reeks of week-old Law & Order and pulls it off with unexpected zeal by playing up the bass line instead of the melody and by offering us two gifted actors working at the top of their game. Read more
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: Sometimes movies that shouldn't work deliver an outcome that's as satisfying as Fracture. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Fracture is suspenseful and darkly stylish, but it also has an unexpectedly dry sense of humor. It's actually a lot funnier and a lot less stiff and self-serious than such a thriller might look. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: While Fracture walks a thin line between fulfilling expectations and confounding them, screenwriter Daniel Pyne does a reasonably good job in balancing the battle of wits between his rising legal-eagle and his calculating wife-killer. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Although Hopkins could surely portray a charismatic killer in his sleep by now, he's clearly having a ball, while Gosling, gliding through every scene with deceptively casual confidence, seems determined to prove himself the best actor of his generation. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Fracture breaks no new ground, but with [Gosling and Hopkins] around, you'll never be bored. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: An entertaining battle of wills and styles. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Fracture, a stylish thriller so highly strung it zings, gives us Hopkins, an actor at the top of his game, in material that's only middling. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: With Anthony Hopkins in the lead and a screenplay that was composed by writers not merely interested in fitting together a jigsaw puzzle of clichA (C)s, this movie is gruesomely engaging. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The picture is clever, somber, quiet: There's just no reason it has to be as deadly boring as it is. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Fracture is what audiences want when they go to a suspense thriller: a flashy, colorful villain; a protagonist who's imperfect enough to be interesting; and most of all a story that keeps viewers guessing, while playing fair. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: Somewhere along the way I gave up on following the ostensibly mind-boggling plot and just thrilled to the visible electricity between the two male leads. Read more
Miriam Di Nunzio, Chicago Sun-Times: Smart, fast-paced and intriguing. Not a perfect film, but a perfectly entertaining one. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Gosling is both amazing and adrift in this almost thoroughly forgettable upscale legal drama and you're left praying that the stardom so surely coming his way doesn't come with a Hopkins clause attached. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Up to a point, the movie has a certain intricacy and novelty. The trouble comes as it gropes for an ending. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: An open-and-shut case becomes an elegantly framed battle of wits in Fracture, an absorbing legal thriller. Read more
Scott Foundas, Village Voice: [Gosling's] the kind of actor who makes other actors look lazy. He is Brando at the time of Streetcar, or Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces, and altogether one of the more remarkable happenings at the movies today. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: As a vehicle for two fine actors, Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling, it's at its best. Read more