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34 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallTampa Bay TimesSteve PersallSnitch is grittily streetwise, and until its last 20 minutes fairly credible compared to other movies "inspired by" true stories.
- 75Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsIt's an entertaining picture — pulp, coming from a place of righteous indignation.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyUnusual for this sort of thing, Snitch is a film after which you remember the characters and actors more than the big action moments.
- 67The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinSnitch toys with moral ambiguity and fatalism before losing its nerve and delivering the action-movie goods in a climax that hews closer to fantasy than the keenly observed realism of the film’s solid center.
- 63McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreWhat gives it’s juice is the supporting cast. John Bernthal (“The Walking Dead”) is credibly wary as the ex-con John begs to get him in the door of the drug world. And the terrific Michael Kenneth Williams is the first dealer he meets, a guy who pulls a gun on him just to test him.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesChicago Sun-TimesWho would have guessed Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson would deliver the best work of his career playing a guy who squares off against a pack of small-time street thugs.
- 60VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeIt's nice to have actors of Sarandon and Pepper's caliber onboard for the office-bound wheeler-dealer scenes, but mostly, it's the prospect of witnessing Johnson at the helm of an 18-wheeler as he rams his way through machine-gun fire that excites.
- 50Austin ChronicleAustin ChronicleUnfortunately, Snitch is torn between being an ideological drama and a more traditional action film – and Johnson’s presence only contributes to the confusion.
- 25Slant MagazineSlant MagazineSnitch is the latest in a long line of films whose sole purpose is to flatten a major social problem into a pulp ideal for self-serious spectacle.
- 25The PlaylistDrew TaylorThe PlaylistDrew TaylorSnitch is just a big, dumb, ugly-looking waste of time, one that turns one of cinema's most charismatic heroes into a restless drone. As they say in the joint: snitches get stitches. But Snitch deserves to be put down for good.