Critic Reviews
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
It brings together several popular strains of contemporary moviemaking and combines them into one big, shameless, audacious, compulsively watchable, irresistibly likable piece of pure entertainment.
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Kick-Ass has punk energy, ace action moves, and a winning sense of absurdist fun.
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New York Post Kyle Smith
A brutally funny deconstruction, a hybrid of “Watchmen” and “Superbad” filtered through John Woo. It's a boisterously original piece of entertainment . . . that isn't for everyone. Note the rating, which should be triple-R, as in Really, Remarkably R.
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
The best superhero movie since "The Dark Knight" (and far less serious in tone or approach), Kick-Ass earns its name in every way.
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
An enjoyably supercharged and ultraviolent teen-rebel comic-book fantasy that might be described -- in spirit, at least -- as reality-based.
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
This shrewd mixture of slick comic-book mayhem, unmistakable sweetness and ear-splitting profanity is poised to be a popular culture phenomenon because of its exact sense of the fantasies of the young male fanboy population.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Its balancing act between innocence and gore perfectly matches the expectations of genre fans, who should embrace the movie.
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
The movie belongs to Moretz, whose sensational performance will be talked about for years. Her scenes with Cage, who wears a Batsuit and uses a voice borrowed from Adam West, are a hoot.
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USA Today Claudia Puig
It's irreverently entertaining.
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Grungily stylish and often funny, at least for a while, though all of the caveats and contradictions that apply to Tarantino films apply here: One man's--or boy's--stylization is another's profane, unrelenting and tedious brutality.
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New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
Kick-Ass - based on a graphic novel - thinks it's so brave and bold. But it's more like the title character, a dweeb who just thinks he's tough.
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