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Metascore
38 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeEven the more cartoonish performances, like John Malkovich's acid-damaged paranoiac, fit the movie's vision of the vanished, wild-and-woolly heyday of spycraft.
- 80Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzRed isn't a great movie, but it's great fun, and if that sounds like damning with faint praise, you take things too seriously.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliIt's a lot of fun and, because of the high quality of the cast, there's no need to feel guilty about praising such an inherently silly motion picture.
- 75MovielineMichelle OrangeMovielineMichelle OrangeThe result is like a sugar rush after a visit to the vintage candy store.
- 70VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangOnly a curmudgeon could entirely resist the laid-back charms of Red, an amusing, light-footed caper about a team of aging CIA veterans rudely forced out of retirement.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceNot the best. Not the worst. Just the classiest.
- 67Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallTampa Bay TimesSteve PersallIt's an amusing geriatric uprising that might just as well be titled "Gray."
- 63Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOrlando SentinelRoger MooreRed has enough acting flourishes and incidental action pleasures to make it an adrenalin-jacked giggle, if not exactly the romp one so fervently expects.
- 60Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichIt's the casting, stupid!
- 40Boxoffice MagazineMark KeizerBoxoffice MagazineMark KeizerNo one is expected to take any of this seriously, so Schwentke keeps things light: light on big laughs, light on unique action set pieces and light on any sense that these game but retired spies are too old for this crap.