Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
positive
27(75%)
mixed
8(22%)
negative
1(3%)
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This is one of the best movies of the year.
100
Glossy, big-budget thriller that qualifies as the season's biggest and most rewarding surprise.
90
Captures the excitement of lightning in a bottle.
80
Out of that clever setup, Changing Lanes pulls both the promised taut suspense and a much deeper film: an ethics thriller.
80
Frustrating yet deeply watchable melodrama that makes you think it's a tougher picture than it is.
80
It's an elegant, civilized, and deeply liberal piece of craftsmanship, with the sort of social conscience you rarely encounter in a modern American thriller.
80
Jackson's portrait of impotent rage is tremendous, and Affleck, who drops his usual smugness, is surprisingly good.
80
The plot, with its matched, escalating acts of revenge, may be a contrivance, but within that contrivance Changing Lanes plays earnest and well. [6 May 2002, p. 138]
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The movie goes for the throat and keeps squeezing.
80
Far richer than you'd ever think possible.
