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Ravenous (1999) Rank 3 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Ravenous (1999) a score of 2.5558 out of 4
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Ravenous (1999) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for eFilmCriticeFilmCritic
Ravenous is a smashed up stew of ingredients that manages to ferment into a truly gut busting meal. Part slasher film, part pitch black comedy, part morality play and part supernatural horror, Ravenous is a big plate rich in wit, imagination and white ...read the complete Ravenous movie review at eFilmCritic
Ravenous (1999) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for IMDB.comIMDB.com
Most horror films from today's Hollywood are original only in their basic concepts. Ted Griffin's script for RAVENOUS, on the other hand, uses rather simple and not particularly original concept and gives it a new meaning by putting it in the rarely ...read the complete Ravenous movie review at IMDB.com
Ravenous (1999) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Los Angeles Times (Kevin Thomas)Los Angeles Times (Kevin Thomas)
Has all the ingredients for a cult film success but most definitely is not for everyone. It's stylish, sophisticated, venturesome--to say the least. ...read the complete Ravenous movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kevin Thomas)
Ravenous (1999) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Salon (Andrew O'Hehir)Salon (Andrew O'Hehir)
Though it definitely requires a strong stomach, Ravenous may be the best cannibal tragicomedy ever made. ...read the complete Ravenous movie review at Salon (Andrew O'Hehir)
Ravenous (1999) scores a combined 3.12 out of 4 stars for Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Bird's grim, picture-perfect direction -- the Sierras are more character than backdrop, and everything else looks like it's already been digested and expelled -- augments what is frankly a small, albeit lusterless, gem of a horror show, for once with as ...read the complete Ravenous movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Ravenous (1999) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Matt PriggeMatt Prigge
We quickly meet our faithful protagonist, Capt. John Boyd (Guy Pearce), an accidental hero during the MexicanAmerican War being awarded a medal for capturing a fort, but in flashback, we see that after all, he was basically a big fat coward, who, like I ...read the complete Ravenous movie review at Matt Prigge
Ravenous (1999) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Clever in the way it avoids most of the cliches of the vampire movie by using cannibalism, and most of the cliches of the cannibal movie by using vampirism. It serves both dishes with new sauces. ...read the complete Ravenous movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Ravenous (1999) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Of course a vampire is simply a cannibal with good table manners, and ``Ravenous'' is a darkly atmospheric film about an epidemic of flesh-eating and the fearsome power that it brings. It ...read the complete Ravenous movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Ravenous (1999) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for LA Weekly (Ernest Hardy)LA Weekly (Ernest Hardy)
Although the hinges connecting the film's elements -- slapstick, political satire, thriller, gross-out shots -- sometimes squeak loudly, they hold the movie together nicely. ...read the complete Ravenous movie review at LA Weekly (Ernest Hardy)
Ravenous (1999) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for Chicago Reader (Lisa Alspector)Chicago Reader (Lisa Alspector)
At its best when it’s least overtly allegorical--and fortunately that’s most of the time. ...read the complete Ravenous movie review at Chicago Reader (Lisa Alspector)
Ravenous (1999) scores a combined 2.59 out of 4 stars for Harvey's Movie Review (Harvey O'Brien)Harvey's Movie Review (Harvey O'Brien)
Absurdist satire of American culture set in 1840s Northern California where a remote, snowbound outpost encounters a wandering pilgrim with grim tales of cannibalism in the mountains which turn out to be only the beginning of a convoluted series of ...read the complete Ravenous movie review at Harvey's Movie Review (Harvey O'Brien)
Ravenous (1999) scores a combined 2.52 out of 4 stars for ReelViews (James Berardinelli)ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
When Bird introduced this movie for its world premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, she made a point to inform the audience that it was okay to laugh during the picture. Indeed, parts of it are quite funny (intentionally so). But even the ...read the complete Ravenous movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Ravenous (1999) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Michael DequinaMichael Dequina
After narrowly escaping death in a battle in the Mexican War, Boyd is assigned to a remote outpost in the Sierra Nevadas manned only by Hart (Jeffrey Jones), the commanding officer; Toffler (Jeremy Davies, doing the softspoken thing yet again), the ...read the complete Ravenous movie review at Michael Dequina
Ravenous (1999) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Guy Pearce--whose long hair and scruffy goatee make him look world's apart from the straight-laced, no-nonsense cop he played in "L.A. Confidential" (1997)--stars as Captain John Boyd, an officer in the Mexican-American War whose paralyzing cowardice ...read the complete Ravenous movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Ravenous (1999) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for ReelViews (James Berardinelli)ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
At first glance, Ravenous looks like it's going to be an unlikely cross between Dances with Wolves and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover - but that's before it turns into something truly unexpected. Those who enjoy horror movies with an unpredic ...read the complete Ravenous movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
 
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