Goon Reviews

Movie Reviews

• wish that Goon were more than a sports-comedy blueprint outfitted with some pretty funny lines

  Review rate : B- by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]

• the very violent but also very funny

  by Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]

• the helmer once again shows he knows how to deliver smart entertainment with cinematic vigor

  by Robert Koehler [Variety ]

• the dialogue, while filthy, is wickedly funny, and sounds perfect coming out of the mouths of these beaten-down characters in their low-rent surroundings

  by Kyle Smith [New York Post ]

• prevails where other sports-film farces fail thanks to Scott’s winning

  by Eric Hynes [Time Out New York ]

• only it's not particularly funny. Call it Unsuperbad

  by Stephen Cole [Globe and Mail ]

• often very funny

  by John DeFore [Hollywood Reporter ]

• manages to make it feel fresh, thanks to an amusing script, muscular direction, and a couple of fine central performances

  by Chris Tilly [IGN Movies UK ]

• it never does anything with this point, since the film only cares about underdog-makes-good pap

  by Nick Schager [Slant Magazine ]

• it is loud, violent, but really, really sharp

  Review rate : A- by Jordan Hoffman [IFC.com ]

• good for lowdown fun, this subversive comedy invites us in to celebrate its idiosyncratic bunch of sweet-natured goons

  by Kathleen Murphy [MSN Movies ]

• asking what's crueler: enjoying the spectacle of blood on ice or taking away a livelihood from those who can't do anything else?

  by Nick Pinkerton [Village Voice ]

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