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New Times (L.A.) by Andy Klein
Dominik's stylistic choices are savvy, but what really makes the movie work is Bana's extraordinary performance as Chopper.
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What are critics saying?
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Bana, who appears in nearly every shot, talking all the while, gives a remarkably mercurial performance.
63
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
It's galling to see such a low-life canonized in a film, but it's also riveting drama.
60
Chicago Reader by Lisa Alspector
The connection between his boasting about killing and killing so he can boast about it -- is made beautifully insidious.
60
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Bana's performance is nothing short of electrifying.
70
Grotesquely violent, horribly funny.
50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Paula Nechak
Much ado about very little because it takes no stand and gives little insight into the Chopper's psyche.
75
Miami Herald by Rene Rodriguez
An impressionistic portrait of the seductive nature of evil.
60
Washington Post by Stephen Hunter
It's a great style, it's a fabulous performance, but it never quite finds what it's searching for.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
Its dabs of dark comedy and stabs of gore, still rings with a sense of the real. It's electric-charged.