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starstarstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstarstar Lou Lumenick - NY Post
starstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstar Stephen Holden - NY Times
starstarstar Nancy Churnin - Dallas Morning News
starstarstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstarstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstarstar Ken Fox - TV Guide
starstarstar Bob Graham - SF Chronicle
starstarstar Robert Horton - Film.com
starstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstar Berge Garabedian - JoBlo.com
MaryAnn Johanson - Flick Filosopher

In its dark, relentless, devastatingly ironic way, The Pledge is an exhilarating movie, partly because it isn't afraid to be genuinely challenging

- Jay Carr

I couldn't wait to get out of the theater just to get the stink of it off me

- MaryAnn Johanson

The Pledge

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Jack Nicholson stars as a nearly-retired cop who vows to a murdered girl's mother that he'll not quit the case until he finds the murderer. Sam Shepard, Aaron Eckhart, Benicio Del Toro, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn. Director: Sean Penn (2000, R)

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