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Murder has never seemed so...innocent. The whole idea of the "kids who kill just to see if they can get away with it" is awesome. I am a huge Ryan Gosling fan, and I think this is just another amazing role for him. Pitt did an excellent...
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Murder has never seemed so...innocent. The whole idea of the "kids who kill just to see if they can get away with it" is awesome. I am a huge Ryan Gosling fan, and I think this is just another amazing role for him. Pitt did an excellent job as well, which impressed me, because I have been disappointed in some of the other roles he has played. The different twists and turns in this film really keep your attention, and I would say it's only mildly perdictable. A must see!

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Posted sep 29, 2008 10:39 pm pt

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The plot in this film was creatively done. The suspense was awesome. Ryan Gosling did an excellent job in his role. I was very impressed by his portrayal of a murderer. Sandra Bullock was excellent as well. Props to the casting director on this...
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The plot in this film was creatively done. The suspense was awesome. Ryan Gosling did an excellent job in his role. I was very impressed by his portrayal of a murderer. Sandra Bullock was excellent as well. Props to the casting director on this film. I also thought it interesting to have Bullock's character's past collide with the current murder case she's working on (I think her past experience and the present goings-on were related somehow, right?). Ryan Gosling is a promising young actor.

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Posted sep 11, 2007 7:29 am pt

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The plot in this film was creatively done. The suspense was awesome. Ryan Gosling did an excellent job in his role. I was very impressed by his portrayal of a murderer. Sandra Bullock was excellent as well. Props to the casting director on this...
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The plot in this film was creatively done. The suspense was awesome. Ryan Gosling did an excellent job in his role. I was very impressed by his portrayal of a murderer. Sandra Bullock was excellent as well. Props to the casting director on this film. I also thought it interesting to have Bullock's character's past collide with the current murder case she's working on (I think her past experience and the present goings-on were related somehow, right?). Ryan Gosling is a promising young actor.

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Posted sep 11, 2007 7:29 am pt

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I absoloutly loved this movie.It was very interesting.Sandra Bullock did a great job playing the character she was.She has made a lot of films that i like.This was just a really good movie.

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Posted jan 30, 2007 8:54 am pt

• [+] Washington Post
  
  80
  Turns potentially forgettable formula into something strangely diverting.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  75
  Schroeder's misstep is trying hard to please his star, whether it be her character's empathetic past or one very fake-looking action climax. His greatest service is keeping her toe-to-toe with her talented co-stars -- and both are the better for it.

  by Ellen A. Kim | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  75
  The outline of Murder by Numbers may be familiar, but the filmmakers and Bullock do an expert job of filling in the colors.

  by Mark Caro | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  75
  Bullock does a good job here of working against her natural likability, creating a character you'd like to like, and could like, if she weren't so sad, strange and turned in upon herself.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  75
  The result is two or three cuts above genre standard.

  by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] Baltimore Sun
  
  75
  The story may be about cold-blooded murder, but Bullock's pulsating performance is about the getting of wisdom.

  by Michael Sragow | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  70
  Though Schroeder makes you squirm more than you want to at the inevitable scenes of the trussed-up female murder victim, he also has the proclivity and the skill to make at least the B-picture half of Murder by Numbers of more than passing interest.

  by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New Yorker
  
  70
  Bullock shades what she normally does into something more interesting -- the angriest and sexiest work she's done. [6 May 2002, p. 138]

  by David Denby | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  70
  Even as the psychological interdependencies of the two boys take the foreground, the movie gets more and more crowded with fun-house surprises and cliffhanging set pieces.

  by F. X. Feeney | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  63
  This is the kind of film where the audience has to sort through the sequences, like visiting the green grocer's: liked that bit, can do without those.

  by Liam Lacey | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  63
  When Bullock is on screen, Murder by Numbers is as far away as a sleepwalker's gaze. But when Schroeder focuses on the teenagers, the film is wide awake, eye-to-eye with adolescent angst and anomie.

  by Carrie Rickey | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  63
  Towards the end, Murder By Numbers reverts to form with cheesy clichés, plot twists, and a fair amount of unnecessary action, but that's easily the film's low point.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  63
  For much of its length, the film is plausible, if predictable and ponderous. Its strongest assets are its actors.

  by Chris Fujiwara | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  63
  In effect gives you two movies for the price of one. The better one doesn't star Sandra Bullock.

  by Lou Lumenick | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  60
  Isn't a great movie, but it's a perfectly acceptable widget.

  by Ann Hornaday | Read Full Review »