See How They Run: A Failed Agatha Christie Spoof?
Newsday
“This snoozy whodunit-spoof doesn’t have a clue.”
Original Score: 1.5/4
Washington Post
“Christie’s 1952 play… provides a fun backdrop, if one rendered irreverently, for this diverting puzzle within a puzzle.”
Original Score: 3/4G. Allen Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle
“With its postcard mid-20th century London setting, classic movie references and a sweet, winning comic performance from Saoirse Ronan, it acts as comfort food for the genre’s aficionados.”
Original Score: 2.5/4
Soren Andersen
Seattle Times
“A most delightful comedy, thanks above all to Ronan.”
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4
Bill Goodykoontz
Arizona Republic
“The phrase “too clever by half” seems insufficient to describe “See How They Run,” a meta mystery film with an outstanding cast and an exhausting sense of self-satisfaction.”
Original Score: 2.5/5
Chris Barsanti
Slant Magazine
“A whodunnit romp in the key of Wes Anderson.”
Original Score: 2.5/4
Richard Brody
New Yorker
“The movie’s one good idea, regarding the perilous connections of art and life, is tossed off casually.”
Kevin Maher
Times (UK)
“… A film that’s aiming to capture the ingenious élan of Knives Out or the Neil Simon classic Murder by Death but too often drifts into the workmanlike doldrums of Adam Sandler’s Murder Mystery.”
Original Score: 2/5
Jason Bailey
The Playlist
“Comedy is all about timing, and the timing here is all off, so the laughs are disturbingly few. What a missed opportunity this is.”
Original Score: C-

Danny Leigh
Financial Times
“Enough affection for period, place and genre runs through his [Tom George] movie to drown out — just about — the creaks and clanks.”
Original Score: 3/5
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph (UK)
“It’s a whizzy fairground ride in theatreland, powered entirely by the thought of a literary icon spinning in her grave.”
Original Score: 4/5
Ian Freer
Empire Magazine
“See How They Run is the whodunnit as hoot, with lots of laughs, oodles of style and played with verve by a quality cast. It also reconfirms Saoirse Ronan as a comedy god.”
Original Score: 4/5
Detroit News
“The filmmakers employ all kinds of ways to try to keep viewers interested, like split screens, some farce and a surreal dream sequence, but there’s not enough humor or grit or anything other than actors swanning around in period clothing.”
Original Score: DChris Hewitt
Minneapolis Star Tribune
“In a perfect world, “See How They Run” — like “Mousetrap” — would run forever.”
Original Score: 3.5/4
Teo Bugbee
New York Times
“With a sprightly wit and an all-star cast to bring it to life, the movie manages to be a loving parody of theater gossips, postwar London and Christie’s murder mysteries all at once.”
Richard Whittaker
Austin Chronicle
“See How They Run is still a silly if slight affair, playful without ever being weighty.”
Original Score: 3/5
Nina Metz
Chicago Tribune
Original Score: 2/4Randy Myers
San Jose Mercury News
“A crafty mystery-within-a-mystery brain twister that plays its sleight of hand with skill and spirit.”
Original Score: 3/4
Mark Kennedy
Associated Press
“Whodunits are hot. But if you’ve see this one, you’ve definitely seen them all.”
Original Score: 1/4
Leigh Monson
AV Club
“‘See How They Run’ is too reverent to its forebears and too toothless in its satire to elevate beyond an overly self-aware genre exercise—competent enough, but all too eager to shoot any attempted subtlety dead where it stands.”
Original Score: B-
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