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New York Post Kyle Smith
A dizzying lowlife saga that's fast, smart, wicked, sort of ambitious and blazingly ironic. It's as unpredictable as a Lindsay Lohan drive to the grocery store, as overstuffed as the pictures on Anthony Weiner's Twitter feed and as hilarious as me on the bench press.
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75
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Entertainment Weekly
With Pain & Gain, his surprising true-crime comedy, Bay has finally decided to lighten up a bit.
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60
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New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
Wahlberg and Johnson are the saving graces of an in-your-face movie.
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50
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Philadelphia Inquirer David Hiltbrand
Yep, it's all fun and games until someone gets brutalized repeatedly. Before you can avert your eyes, it's Katie, bar the door and break out the chain saws.
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50
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USA Today Claudia Puig
A badly constructed, blood-spattered caper that comes unglued early on.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
It's a homemade protein-and-steroids smoothie of a plot, combining elements of gore, self-parody, 1990s nostalgia overload and an attempt to say something -- while actually saying absolutely nothing -- about the American dream.
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50
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NPR Scott Tobias
Bay blankets the film in a tone of smug self-awareness that obscures everything but its bald hypocrisy.
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25
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Boston Globe Ty Burr
Pain & Gain, a jokey but fatally tone-deaf true-crime caper, plays like “Fargo” for idiots.
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20
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The Hollywood Reporter Todd McCarthy
The story is told in a hammer-on-anvil manner that evinces no gift for social satire or sharp cultural insight.
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0
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Michael Bay's absurdist comedy is all pain, no gain and an utter monstrosity. It may be the most unpleasant movie I've ever seen, and I'm not forgetting "Freaks," which Pain & Gain resembles, come to think of it.
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