| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2013

| Original Score: B | Jan 22, 2013

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

It's straightforward and nongimmicky (you don't have to wonder whodunit because we're told in the first few minutes), involves a minimum of blood and gore, and holds our interest nicely.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2007

Not since Lecter has a role been this well suited to Hopkins, whose intelligence and pristine formality as an actor often make him seem alien.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jun 30, 2007

A smart and snappy thriller that makes light work of its ethical dilemmas, Fracture is a little too neat and tidy to stick in the mind for long, but the Hopkins-Gosling pairing is choice, and neither comes up short.

| Jun 30, 2007

The two leads are on fine form, but the surrounding structure is too familiar from a thousand other films. Still, tense and occasionally twisty stuff.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 30, 2007

Fracture is the kind of polished cat-and-mouse movie thriller that depends entirely on the cat and the mouse having read and agreed to the script in advance.

| Apr 30, 2007

You've got to expect comparisons to Silence of the Lambs. The verdict: for me at least Fracture isn't even a fraction as good.

Full Review | Apr 23, 2007

The main interest here is the juxtaposing of Gosling's Method acting with Hopkins's more classical style, a spectacle even more mesmerizing than the settings.

| Apr 23, 2007

A provocative game that plays out with intelligence and wit.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 20, 2007

There will be few better examples all year of how much a script can be elevated by the actors involved.

Full Review | Apr 20, 2007

Fracture breaks no new ground, but with [Gosling and Hopkins] around, you'll never be bored.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 20, 2007

Gosling is both amazing and adrift in this almost thoroughly forgettable upscale legal drama and you're left praying that the stardom so surely coming his way doesn't come with a Hopkins clause attached.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 20, 2007

Fracture is what audiences want when they go to a suspense thriller: a flashy, colorful villain; a protagonist who's imperfect enough to be interesting; and most of all a story that keeps viewers guessing, while playing fair.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 20, 2007

Fracture, a stylish thriller so highly strung it zings, gives us Hopkins, an actor at the top of his game, in material that's only middling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 20, 2007

Although Hopkins could surely portray a charismatic killer in his sleep by now, he's clearly having a ball, while Gosling, gliding through every scene with deceptively casual confidence, seems determined to prove himself the best actor of his generation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 20, 2007

The movie's logic fails at the end -- it betrays a criminal blind spot in its reasoning -- but you're best off not subjecting it to any prolonged analysis. Don't think. Just watch.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 20, 2007

Director Gregory Hoblit can't seem to find any real heart in this story.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 20, 2007