If Hollywood is going to be indicted for making mindlessly violent action films, let them at least be as good as this one.

| Feb 12, 2013

Whether by design or otherwise, Dredd seems better-suited to a 2D home video presentation than to the 3D silver screen.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 30, 2012

I may have never seen a nonhorror film as relentlessly, brutally, and crowd-pleasingly violent as this skintight adaptation of the long-running British comic-book character.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 28, 2012

A Judge Dredd for the 21st century: humorless, scowling and shot in murky 3-D.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 28, 2012

While not for the squeamish, Dredd 3D is an effectively gritty B movie accentuated by stylish visuals and irreverent humor.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 21, 2012

With style and dour charisma to spare, Dredd proves that the smartest way to handle an action plot is often the simplest.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2012

Proceeds like its protagonist: ploddingly but relentlessly.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 21, 2012

Proves a surprisingly unimaginative cops vs. drug lord story, complete with the weathered veteran forced to take a rookie under his wing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 21, 2012

My notes are as follows: "Shoot bad guy." "Shoot bad guy." "Shoot bad guy."

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 21, 2012

This, finally, is the Dredd movie comic book readers have been anticipating.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 21, 2012

Smartly cast and with a sharp team behind the scenes, there is no good reason why "Dredd 3D" is such a clunk-headed action picture.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 20, 2012

Every so often there's a suggestion that a police state may actually be a lousy idea, but this thought dies even faster than the disposable characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 20, 2012

For sci-fi action fans, it's an instant classic.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 20, 2012

It's savage, beautiful and loads of fun.

| Sep 20, 2012

What's exceptional is the orchestration of color, form, light and dark (lots of dark), 3-D technology and digital effects into a look that amounts to a vision.

| Sep 20, 2012

In a generic way, the environment works. But it drains the material of what should be most unique about it, and leaves Urban twisting despite a tightly coiled performance.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 20, 2012

"Dredd" is a lot of murk and grunt with no inner engine. And the unnecessary 3-D only makes it look muddier.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 20, 2012

A fine piece of cheap entertainment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 20, 2012

With its dark characters and the grim setting, the film masterfully creates a compelling, nightmarish atmosphere.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 20, 2012

Urban manages to give a credibly wry performance using little more than his gravelly, imitation-Eastwood voice - and his chin.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 20, 2012