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18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeStockholm, which gently massages actual events to serve as a fine vehicle for Noomi Rapace and Ethan Hawke, is far from the first movie to believably show a crime victim coming to sympathize with a criminal. But it's a funny and agile one.
- 67The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakAs a comedy with a good-natured soul doing bad things to earn his surrogate brother freedom, Stockholm is a success.
- 60TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanTheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanIf you’re willing to take the movie for what it really is — a fairly generic caper inspired by, rather than based on, actual events — you’ll find just enough to appreciate.
- 60The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisDrowsy in feel and muted in color, Stockholm is lightly amusing and watchable — mostly thanks to Hawke — but never makes the case that this is a story that needed to be told, with or without laughs.
- 50The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyHawke is no stranger to elevating subpar material with a committed performance, but his fidgety crook-with-a-heart-of-gold act is undercut by Budreau’s uncreative use of the limited setting (almost the whole thing takes place inside the bank) and unskillful handling of the broad tone.
- 50VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanThe opening title says “Based on an absurd but true story,” yet there’s nothing absurd about the facts. Improbable? Yes. Hapless and desperate? Most definitely. But the absurdity — the impulse to giggle — is mostly there in the eye of the writer-director, Robert Budreau, who collaborated with Hawke two years ago on the entrancing Chet Baker biopic “Born to Be Blue” but here comes off as a far less sure-handed filmmaker.
- 50The PlaylistJonathan ChristianThe PlaylistJonathan ChristianThe film is not meaningless, or even trifling, but, Stockholm never rises above mediocre, and that is what hurts the most.
- 50Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenForget Dog Day Afternoon, as the film doesn’t even clear the bar set by F. Gary Gray’s tense and exciting The Negotiator.
- 50Original-CinLiam LaceyOriginal-CinLiam LaceyYet another stilted comic thriller.
- Whenever it promises to spin into madcap nonsense, Budreau asserts a kind of tortured primness, as if chastened by the realization that this all actually happened to real people. And they seem to be having more fun than we are.