The climax is the biggest letdown...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 3, 2019

Predictable thriller is definitely not for kids.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 26, 2010

The outline of Murder by Numbers may be familiar, but the filmmakers and Bullock do an expert job of filling in the colors.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2002

It's an intriguing set-up, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 12, 2002

It's well worth catching for its interesting twists on the Leopold and Loeb story.

| May 17, 2002

As long as Schroeder stays with the kids, the film musters a good deal of restless tabloid intensity, and even the occasional twinge of pathos.

Full Review | Apr 23, 2002

Bullock is good, the script is not.

Full Review | Apr 22, 2002

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 21, 2002

Turns potentially forgettable formula into something strangely diverting.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 19, 2002

Murder by Numbers' isn't a great movie, but it's a perfectly acceptable widget.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 19, 2002

[Gayton's script] telegraphs every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 19, 2002

There's nothing really wrong with Murder by Numbers -- it's just that you've seen it all before.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 19, 2002

A respectable but uninspired thriller that's intelligent and considered in its details, but ultimately weak in its impact.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 19, 2002

A preposterously dull thriller.

| Apr 19, 2002

Doesn't add up to much.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 19, 2002

This is Sandra Bullock at her teasing, wonder woman best.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 19, 2002

This should've been called Moviemaking by the Numbers. That would be a truthful description.

| Original Score: C | Apr 19, 2002

Murder by Numbers gives Sandra Bullock her best role in recent memory.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 19, 2002

Fans of CSI and Patricia Cornwell novels are not likely to find Murder by Numbers any more convincing than the Simpson jury found blood tracings.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 19, 2002

Murder By Numbers plays like two separate movies awkwardly joined together.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 19, 2002