The plot is preposterous, but Joe Wright, the director, gives the movie enough audacious drive and style for the story to skim over the holes in the narrative logic.

| Oct 21, 2022

Even though there are misogynistic undercurrents to the fatal gunshot wound Hanna delivers... Weigler will never die because she lives on in Hanna, and her story will be retold and revised just like the fables women and girls pass on to one another.

| Jan 11, 2021

The thing with Joe Wright's beautifully shot movie is that it never really feels true.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 2, 2019

Hanna is not just a sleek action movie (with a heart-pounding soundtrack), but it also has a soul that you don't want to part with.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 8, 2017

This cool, calculated who's-hunting-who piece brings home all the requisite tension, gunplay and fighting with a great deal of cinematic style.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 18, 2011

Wright is capable of much better, as is everyone in the cast. He's trying to make a silky Euro thriller with a frisson of controversy. It's more like a never-ending trailer.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 27, 2011

Folklore undercurrents that prove initially spry and intriguing are soon rendered ... leadenly obvious.

| Original Score: C+ | May 31, 2011

The body count is phenomenal and the overall effect polished, weightless and unmemorable.

| May 8, 2011

There's little doubt that Wright has made a technically proficient and often imaginative film, attempting to be an action movie with a mind of its own, referencing fairy tales, reality and super-duper spectacle.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2011

Can this really be a Joe Wright film? Where are the corsets and crinoline?

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2011

Fun in places but unfulfilling as a whole.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 5, 2011

After a strongish start, the film doesn't so much sag as utterly collapse - each audience member will feel like someone who has flung himself into a hammock that isn't tied at either end.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 5, 2011

A surreal thriller needs a thrillmaker with a gift for the surreal, not the pedestrian talent (here) of Joe Wright.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 4, 2011

While the film as a whole may be episodic and wayward, and not always in a good way, the action scenes are uniformly sharp, inventive and gripping.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 3, 2011

An absurd-sounding concept rendered wholly believable and thrilling by a fearless young actress and a director at the top of his game.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 3, 2011

"I just missed your heart," Hanna says at one point, as she spears an enemy to death. Not mine, she didn't.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 30, 2011

The Plausibility Alarm went off somewhere in the film's first scene, and then the thing rang so many times that it finally broke.

| Apr 29, 2011

An entertainingly nutty action thriller from the director Joe Wright.

Full Review | Apr 25, 2011

When the beats and the color saturation fades, we're left with nothing but a very surface, very uninteresting story.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Apr 11, 2011

Blessed with considerable virtues, including a clever concept, crackling filmmaking and a charismatic star, it ultimately squanders all of them, undone by an unfortunate lack of subtlety and restraint.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 11, 2011