Bad timing can kill a movie that has everything going for it, but the problem with Peppermint isn't so much bad timing as tone deafness on an egregious scale.

| Jan 26, 2019

Peppermint is jaw-droppingly ugly, horrendously violent, implicitly racist and routinely handled.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 14, 2018

From a broader perspective, the film marks an intriguing new stage in Hollywood's ongoing effort to figure out what action movies about women (and aimed at them) should look like.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 12, 2018

There must not have been enough zeros on the alimony check; why else would Garner agree to lend her name to what is essentially gun porn?

| Original Score: 0/5 | Sep 15, 2018

There isn't anything that special to it. It doesn't rise above anything...disappointing despite a really strong performance from Jennifer Garner.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 15, 2018

Peppermint seems to be an action movie two decades too late. Surely, Garner deserves better than this.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 13, 2018

Anything Liam Neeson can do, Jennifer Garner can do better. Ha! Not in this hilariously awful, insanely hard-to-swallow action thriller from Taken director Pierre Morel. No one gets taken here, except audiences.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 12, 2018

Leaves a trace of slime that's hard to wipe up-and leaves the feeling that it would be better for the world at large if this movie hadn't been made.

| Sep 10, 2018

There was a time when a woman being the star of her own bad action franchise could have been considered the apex of progress, but that time is past.

| Sep 7, 2018

Peppermint is not some model of equality, it's just violent escapism that happens to have a woman in the lead role.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 7, 2018

The title, with its slight echo of the 1973 Pam Grier vehicle Coffy, promises a sticky confection of feminism and violence, but the movie it's selling is a desultory drag.

| Sep 7, 2018

Whatever moments of fun there are watching Garner infallibly tear through the ranks of the drug gang are canceled out by the movie's lack of creativity and imagination.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 7, 2018

A laughably bad melange of blood, guts and racial stereotypes.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Sep 7, 2018

A low-grade piece of vigilante trash that she should be above.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2018

Peppermint is like getting sushi from a hospital cafeteria. You know it's going to be bad, but you don't know how bad -- until you realize, oh, everything is really quite awful!

| Sep 6, 2018

If much of Pierre Morel's work to this point scanned as tongue-in-cheek, this one feels like a raspberry.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 6, 2018

It's all very satisfying, in a visceral way, like the feeling you get after finding the housefly that's been buzzing around your head since three in the morning and crushing it with a rolled-up Sporting Green.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 6, 2018

The whole mess is wildly implausible but, largely because of Garner's presence, it kinda sorta works.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 6, 2018

Garner bulls her way through the film with determination and a minimum of facial expressions, like someone who's been told to clean up something awful and just wants to get it over with.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 6, 2018

"Peppermint" is a belabored exercise in lazily constructed déjà vu, without the grit or stylized ham of predecessors it so baldly steals from.

| Sep 6, 2018