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Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Overview

Genre :

Drama

Release Date :

November 09, 2005

MPAA Rating :

R

Director :

Jim Sheridan

Starring :

50 Cent, Viola Davis, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Benz Antoine, Pedro Miguel Arce, Joy Bryant, Bill Duke, Terrence Dashon Howard, Marcel Jones

REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Nothing's perfect, but it's worth seeing.    Readers  5 of 5 [Rate It]

4 of 5

“..plays like a genre movie with a particularly skilled hand at the helm..”
by Chris Vognar [The Dallas Morning News]
“..offers no emotional pleas or social messages..”
by Kirk Honeycutt [The Hollywood Reporter]
2.5 of 4

“..not the rousing story of a rapper's rise..”
by Scott Mervis [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
3.5 of 5

“..neither powerful nor interesting..”
by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly]
1 of 5

“..narcissistic film-making at its worst..”
by David Mercier [FilmJudge]
1.5 of 4

“..is just one more trite gangster picture..”
by Pam Grady [Reel]
3 of 4

“..is certainly worth the price of admission..”
by Chelsea Bain [Boston Herald]
3 of 5

“..disappointingly formulaic..”
by Calvin Wilson [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
2.5 of 4

“..an intriguingly mixed-up gangsta outing..”
by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune]
7 of 10

“..an entertaining movie in its own right...”
by Edward Douglas [Comingsoon]
2.5 of 4

“..a cartoonish hodgepodge of vulgarity, nudity, drugs, racial epithets and blunt-force trauma..”
by Duane Dudek [The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel]
4.5 of 5
Reviewed by T.O. Sweet [The Cinema Source]
4 of 5
Reviewed by [E! Online]
3.5 of 5
Reviewed by Keith Breese [Filmcritic]
3 of 4
Reviewed by Eyder Peralta [Houston Chronicle]
2.5 of 5
Reviewed by Vince Leo [Qwipster's Movie Reviews]
2.5 of 4
Reviewed by Michael Machosky [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
2.5 of 5
Reviewed by Tim Cogshell [Boxoffice Magazine]
2.5 of 4
Reviewed by Jan Stuart [Newsday]
2.5 of 5
Reviewed by Pete Vonder Haar [Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice]
2 of 5
Reviewed by Collin Souter [EFilmCritic]
2 of 4
Reviewed by Nick Schager [Slant Magazine]
2 of 4
Reviewed by Peter Keough [The Boston Phoenix]
2 of 5
Reviewed by Marc Savlov [Austin Chronicle]
1.5 of 4
Reviewed by Sara M. Fetters [MovieFreak]
1.5 of 4
Reviewed by Daniel Fienberg [Zap2it]
1.5 of 4
Reviewed by Christy Lemire [Deseret News, Salt Lake City]
1 of 5
Reviewed by Andrea Chase [Killer Movie Reviews]
Reviewed by Steve Schneider [Orlando Weekly]

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