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75
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Among the recent spate of comic-book movies, from "Spider-Man" to the "X-Men," The Punisher is unique.
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75
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USA Today Mike Clark
Trashy and disturbingly violent yet fairly zippy and amusingly cast.
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70
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Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Unlike some of its recent ilk - "Spider-Man," for example - The Punisher is, no disrespect, a thoroughly morose and bilious affair. That is precisely what I like best about it.
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60
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
That rare comic book movie that actually feels like a comic book. Which turns out to be mostly, but not entirely, a good thing.
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50
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The Punisher is so grim and cheerless, you wonder if even its hero gets any satisfaction from his accomplishments.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer
It's a prevailing sense of humor that makes this an entertaining, if silly, film adaptation of the Marvel comic.
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40
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Punishes the audience with a flat starring performance; Mr. Jane finds few sparks of life in a hero who wasn't all that lively to begin with.
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30
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The New York Times Dana Stevens
Its lack of subtlety is clearly a point of pride, and Mr. Hensleigh's flat-footed, hard-punching style has a blunt ferocity that makes "Kill Bill" look like "In the Bedroom."
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16
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The Punisher is a moronically inept and tedious piece of death-wish trash.
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0
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
Don't hold your breath waiting for The Punisher to be original, not for one second of its torturous two hours.
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