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Before the Devil Knows You
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead [Blu-ray]
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3.5 (122 reviews)
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3Well that was a cheery one
2Shockingly bad
4One of the decade's best thrillers
4DVD
3O Brother
5"The world is an evil place, Charlie. Some of us make money off of that. Others get destroyed..."
10%Does Good Acting Redeem This Film?
3Dark with good acting
53.5 stars out of 4
5A SIMPLE PLAN...
1A dreadful movie
41%Similar to Thelma and Louise
4Taking family dysfunction to a whole new level
3Dark, depressing, duplicitous and deadly tale of debauchery
5A brilliant study of lives unravelling due to greed and desperation
5Before the Devil Knows Your Dead
31%meetting ties in a "world of opprotunities"
41%Flammable Stuff
31%In a back-and-forth style, Sydney Lumet's psychological crime thriller is good to watch...
10%Ugly & boring as PSH's too visible anatomy
51%Hoffman does it again!
11%Terrible
4(3.5 STARS) "No One Was Supposed to Get Hurt": Absorbing (Though Depressing) Crime Drama
4beforethe devil knows your dead
5Engrossing movie...
50%Not every story has a happy ending
10%Try Something New, Hollywood!
41%BAD IDEA!.... GONE REALLY REALLY WRONG!
4A Descent into Evil
5Great
2Not awesome...
41%Lumet: Still The Master Filmmaker
5Sidney Lumet in Top Form
5A Five Star Film And Then Some!
20%Mining The Depths Of Stupidity
51%Depressing, but Strangely Beautiful
5Before the Devil Knows Your're Dead
41%You have about 30 Minutes in Heaven Before the Devil knows you're Dead!
51%The GREAT Sidney Lumet Strikes Again!
51%"May You Be In Heaven Half an Hour...Before the Devil Knows Your Dead"
41%Excellent Downbeat Lumet Thriller
20%Disappointing, insistent, and hard to sit through
31%Disturbing.
5great acting, great script, great pace
41%The Family That Slays Together...
10%Do not believe the possitive reviews... This is horrible!
10%Depressing, dark and hopeless
10%Thank God for Fast Forward should've been the title!
10%IS IT JUST ME - OR IS ETHAN HAWKE THE SLIMIEST LOOKING ACTOR IN THE WORLD????????
50%Hoffman Shines Again
31%Grim, depressing film of the death of a horrible family
41%unrelentingly grim course to self destruction
50%Film noir american style
40%Frantic, explosive, and poetic - begining to end!
51%May you be in heaven half an hour...
51%A Sharp Cast Led by a Brilliant Hoffman Ignites Lumet's Fever-Pitch Suspense Melodrama
40%Lumet Still has What It Takes.
31%Before the Devil Knows Marisa Tomei's Naked.
10%Its official....Hollywood has run out of ideas
5albert finney
31%Indulgent acting mars what might have been a hard-edged story. At least we can see Rosemary Harris show us the real goods
11%Going to Hell
50%Wow. Totally unexpected.
31%It Will Not Be to Everyone's Taste
30%unoriginal ending
5What a gripping thriller!
31%where's the medical advisor?
41%Dark, Overlooked, and Full of Outstanding Performances
4Before The Devil Know's You're Dead
21%Sorry I wasted my time
20%I Wish I Was Dead
41%Another Sidney Lumet triumph
41%"I got to get into character."
51%Oh What A Tangled Web We Weave, When First We Practice To Deceive
40%....very good
10%so terrible it's almost funny...but not
51%Spectacularly dark and absorbing
51%Testing the boundaries of family loyalty...
51%Touching on Greek tragedy
21%Huge Disappointment
41%Desperation Begets More Desperation, and Then Some.
5Top-notch melodrama!
40%Who would have thought that Ethan Hawke could act?
40%wow
51%The Characters Walking Down The Stairway Of Hell
10%I sincerely hope this was NOT Sidney Lumet's swan song!
20%Disappointing
10%Terrible, slow, tedious, bleak
21%Twists that are too predictable. Not as good as I had hoped...
51%A Family Implosion
51%Strong performances and story; why so overlooked?
41%Gripping and unsettling; this `devil' deserves your attention...
41%A hard movie to watch more than once
41%One of the most depressing movies ever...
31%3+1/2 stars ==== Dark, depressing, ugly story
40%great movie but questionable ending
41%Dark and intense...."A Simple Plan" on steroids
5A Noir with taste of Greek tragedy!
30%Quick toughts
51%How Did This Go Unnoticed?
51%best of the year
51%As Real As A Film Can Get
50%THREE WORDS--Philip Seymour Hoffman!! BRILLIANT MOVIE!
31%Beat The "Devil"
51%desperate betrayal
31%As an allegory for our time -- not bad; as a plausible plot -- not good
41%Suspension of Disbelief
41%Descent into dysfunction
51%Riveting and Heartwrenching
51%WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!!
51%A very chilling and engrossing film!
5Old age is sure not slowing Lumet down.
51%A thrilling and powerful film.
41%Wreaking Ball
30%Overrated & Won't Hold Up to Multiple Viewings
41%I'd rate it a 4.5 if I could.
50%Master Filmmaker working with Great Actors = Great Film
20%Admiring a misnamed film I didn't enjoy with unloveable characters
30%Sorry,but I just don't get this Lumet film.What is it's purpose?
41%"Everything just went wrong."
30%Before the viewer can find all the holes in the script!
40%powerful performances in family-drama/heist flick
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