Arlington Road: Critic Reviews

90%

MovieWeb: 1 reviews

61%

RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

67

An engrossing thriller!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

63

A marginal engrosser that's short on staying power.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

60

A flat, formulaic ride!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Dennis Lim Village Voice (Top Critic)

Mostly devoid of suspense!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jane Sumner Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

From its horrific start, it's involving.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

50

The climax is so implausible we stop caring and start scratching our heads!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

Arlington Road is a movie trying so hard for intelligence, quality and deeper meanings, you can almost sense the strain under the celluloid.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

25

The machinations and manipulations built into the story it spins are simply too obvious to be taken to heart.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jonathan Foreman New York Post (Top Critic)

Arlington Road is a dumb, overheated thriller pretending to be a smart, topical one.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Peter Brunette Film.com (Top Critic)

An imaginative action film!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Tom Keogh Film.com (Top Critic)

Arlington Road succeeds at discomforting a viewer and making one apt to look over one's shoulder for a day or two.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Andrew O'Hehir Salon.com (Top Critic)

A dank, mechanical exercise that refuses to have any fun.
Full Review » 12 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

50

The screenplay stretches the viewer's credulity far beyond the breaking point, asking us to accept dozens of absurd contrivances and coincidences.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

60

Scary movie about terrorism. Not for kids.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

75

Stylish and unsettling.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

100

Darker and more intimate than you expect.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Bill Clark FromTheBalcony

75

A tight, well-rounded piece of suspense/thriller filmmaking with an electric performance by Bridges.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jeffrey Overstreet Looking Closer

17

It merely exploits our fears and emotions to jerk us around.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Pablo Villaca Cinema em Cena

60

Apesar da narrativa morna e nada sutil, o final do filme redime parte dos fracassos do projeto.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jason Clark Matinee Magazine

50

It never really gets inside us, mostly due to its overheated direction and endless Hitchcockian references.
Full Review » 10 years ago
John A. Nesbit ToxicUniverse.com

40

...serves little more than forgettable rental fodder for some evening when you are in the mood for mindless junk food.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality and Practice

A gripping political thriller about the dangers of domestic terrorism and the paranoia of those who see danger everywhere.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Tom Block culturevulture.net

...could have been a superb dark fantasy, but takes its own malarkey seriously.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Blake French NutzWorld

88

almost hard to catch your breath
Full Review » 11 years ago
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 3BlackChicks Review

100

A crooked road indeed.
Full Review » 11 years ago