| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"Cynical, explosive and smart, smart, smart." more... |
A- |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"...Syriana has an absorbing, ominous roundness that plays even better with a second viewing." more... |
B |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...an endlessly fascinating movie about oil and money..." more... |
A |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
"...the film is worth the trouble." more... |
B |
| E! Online |
"...extremely ambitious but not so satisfying..." more... |
B- |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"...what Syriana forgets to provide is the one thing that makes any movie, however difficult, easy to love: emotional empathy." more... |
B- |
filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti |
"...a fitfully engrossing and overreaching film that is both somehow too much and yet not enough." more... |
B- |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"Mosaic of Middle East geopolitics is at once too simplistic yet plot-wise too convoluted." more... |
C |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"Fiercely intelligent." more... |
A- |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
"...demands and rewards close attention." more... |
A- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"The cast is a mix of A-list actors and relative unknowns, and there isn't a weak performance to be found." more... |
A- |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"It's the kind of give-'em-hell filmmaking that Hollywood left for dead, the kind that matters." more... |
A |
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein |
"...the human touch is sorely missing." more... |
C |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...it's simply not a very good movie." more... |
C+ |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...thought-provoking and unnerving, emotionally engaging and intellectually stimulating." more... |
A- |
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