Grosse Pointe Blank 1997

Critics score:
79 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: Directed jauntily by George Armitage, it has the jokey, winsome tone of his earlier Miami Blues and enough wild-card energy to keep it bright and surprising. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Clever enough to make jokes about Greco-Roman wrestling and make them funny, Grosse Pointe Blank's greatest success is the way it maintains its comic attitude. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Despite some early indications from the two Cusacks and Arkin that it's going to be funny, it winds up an unholy mess that becomes steadily more incoherent -- morally, dramatically, and conceptually. Read more

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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: An entertaining oddity, an amiably black comedy whose bared teeth double as an engaging smile: It takes a satiric bite and leaves you laughing through the pain. For that, we can thank the writers. Read more

Miami Herald: Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The film offers sufficient small pleasures to make it worth enduring the less effective elements. As a result, while Grosse Pointe Blank fails to deliver a fullisade, at least the chamber's not empty, either. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The film takes the form but not the feel of a comic thriller. It's quirkier than that. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: It's a sad day when an actor who's totally, beautifully in touch with his dark side finds himself stuck in a movie that's scared of its own shadow. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: A soggy, all-over-the- place mess. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: For what is essentially a one-joke movie, this has an awful lot going for it. Read more

Leonard Klady, Variety: Cusack is charming and assured in the film. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Cusack's talents are delicate and appealing, but not propulsive enough to lead the movie to triumph. Read more