Given the safe, PG-13-rated tenor of most superhero movies today, something offbeat (and R-rated) like Kick-Ass comes as a shock, albeit a welcome one.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2023

Everything is clever, with irreverent impertinence… devilishly fun. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 19, 2022

Kick-Ass entertainingly and effectively subverts the superhero genre, while providing a hilarious comic book reality check. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 6, 2021

For now let's just sit back and enjoy a film that comes along all too rarely, a film that will reignite your love of celluloid.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 19, 2021

Find one review that doesn't say that Hit Girl steals the show. She gets the best scenes, and actually complicates the plot... So, I guess you don't have to pass on Kick-Ass.

| Dec 23, 2020

Comic book movies don't get much more original than this.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 29, 2020

Despite the change in climate over the years, Kick-Ass remains a fun and thrilling genre subversion ten years later.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2020

The real scene-stealers and show-stoppers are Nicolas Cage and Chloe Grace Moretz as a father and daughter crimefighting team.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 5, 2020

Man, I loved this film.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020

Kick-Ass actually qualifies as a character-driven movie and not a film dominated by its special effects.

| Mar 6, 2020

[A] tedious, crudely plotted, soulless action film.

| Jan 23, 2020

In the end this a great start to the big movie season and a fine first salvo of this year's comic property based movies line up.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 11, 2020

Not only is it a tale of revenge, but it also sets up its masked vigilantes for more adventures like any good comic book story should.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 24, 2019

For those of you curious and off kilter enough to give it a try, you will see beauty and warmth and optimism in it, mixed with a truth rarely shown at the multiplex these days.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 24, 2019

It's a blast-a smart, refreshing, subversive spin on the super-hero genre.

| Jul 24, 2019

Isn't always pretty, but it's a brazen, irreverent and wildly entertaining experience that distills the clichés and standards of the genre and turns them on their heads.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 7, 2019

Fortunately, this is a film that isn't afraid to cross the line with its material, but does so in such a clever manner that it makes Kick-Ass one of the spring's more entertaining cinematic experiences.

| Original Score: B+ | May 10, 2019

... just another kind of superhero fantasy, but with more blood and expletives along the way.

| Nov 11, 2018

A hilarious, hip twist on the superhero genre. Gone are the superpowers, the 100 inch chests and holier than thou attitude.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2018

Kick-Ass asks what would happen if superheroes really DID operate in the real world, and the results are shocking, intriguing and entertaining all at once.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 4, 2018