Burke and Hare Reviews

Movie Reviews

• witless drivel

  by Ray Bennett [Hollywood Reporter ]

• to call it a black comedy is probably misleading: It's grey at best, and apart from a few scattered chuckles, it dies as quickly and gracelessly as Burke and Hare's victims

  by Ian Buckwalter [NPR ]

• the new Burke & Hare offers many pleasures, chief among them the return of the Landis of old

  Review rate : B by Nathan Rabin [AV Club ]

• the misfortune in this loping cadence is that the movie's stereotypes aren't made buffoonish enough to be gawked at

  by Joseph Jon Lanthier [Slant Magazine ]

• Landis' retelling, from a pretty clever script by Nick Moorcroft and Piers Ashworth, makes the title duo a couple of lovable ne'er-do-wells who happen upon homicide for profit more or less by accident

  by Glenn Kenny [MSN Movies ]

• its unapologetically old-fashioned sensibility may have trouble connecting with contempo auds

  by Charles Gant [Variety ]

• by swinging between broad laughs and cheap pathos-Pegg's specialties as an actor, apparently-while avoiding the more fertile ground between, Landis renders his Burke and Hare sociopolitically toothless and bizarrely insensitive

  by Mark Holcomb [Village Voice ]

• a nasty movie without any bite, a comedy that depicts gruesome acts with glee, but doesn't mine any real satirical humor from them

  by Josh Bell [Filmcritic.com ]

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