Collateral: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 10 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 229 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

75

Cruise and Foxx are so good together because they allow the two characters to get under each other's skin. They're buddies and enemies at the same time.
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Manohla Dargis New York Times (Top Critic)

80

Pitched between interludes of anxious intimacy and equally nerve-shredding set pieces, Michael Mann's edgy new thriller scores its points with underhand precision.
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Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

88

A stirring two-hour footnote to [Mann's] masterpiece Heat.
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Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

If Collateral is all formula, it's polished to a fine sheen.
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Stephen Hunter Washington Post (Top Critic)

Collateral is the best kind of genre filmmaking: It plays by the rules, obeys the traditions and is both familiar and fresh at once.
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Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

63

Collateral is the kind of sleek Maserati that can make men weak in the knees, but the sad truth is that it has a straight-4 under the hood.
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Michael Atkinson Village Voice (Top Critic)

A slim drink of thin beer, remarkable only as evidence that Mann might have a modern masterpiece in him if he were cut loose and allowed to roam around in his own obsessions.
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Jack Mathews New York Daily News (Top Critic)

75

Though it is a far less ambitious entertainment than Tarantino's masterpiece, it has its moments.
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Eric Harrison Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

67

Mann brings some of the style and assurance he brought to Heat and Thief.
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Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

84

A suspenseful, jolting and even thrilling ride.
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Lisa Kennedy Denver Post (Top Critic)

88

Arguably the best studio film of the summer.
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Peter Rainer New York Magazine (Top Critic)

Most of the time we are with Cruise and Foxx, and their interplay is never less than galvanizing.
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David Denby New Yorker (Top Critic)

Mann has become a master builder of sequences, the opposite of the contemporary action directors who produce a brutally meaningless whirl of movement.
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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

88

This is a rare thriller that's as much character study as sound and fury.
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Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

75

An expertly-made thriller.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

75

The best thing Mann brings to his picture is a strong sense of time and place.
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Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

75

[Jamie Foxx is] the reason to see Collateral, as he walks into the frame and walks off with the picture.
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Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

75

Well-cast and well-acted, top to bottom.
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Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

50

A fairly typical bang-bang exercise with outrageous shootouts, lots of dead bodies and well-placed comic relief.
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Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

80

Mann never lets the audience settle into familiar patterns, crafting a moody, mesmerizing battle between good and evil.
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Andrew Sarris New York Observer (Top Critic)

Throughout the gruesome cat-and-mouse game being played by Vincent and Max in Collateral, there's something psychologically, dramatically and even sociologically interesting going on.
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Rex Reed New York Observer (Top Critic)

As violent thrillers go, Collateral goes down quite nicely, stirring up hardly any acid reflux at all.
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Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)

This intensely focused piece soars not only on the director's precision-tooled style but also on the outstanding interplay between leads Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx.
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Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

75

Collateral has such classy trappings, you're constantly expecting more -- but while there may be less here than meets the eye, this is solid stuff in the midst of Hollywood's dog days.
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Jay Boyar Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

60

Yet another lackluster late-summer thriller.
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