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starstarstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstarstar Robert Horton - Film.com
starstarstarstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstarstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstarstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstarstar Jonathan Foreman - NY Post
starstarstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstarstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide
starstarstar Walter Addiego - SF Examiner
starstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstar Shawn Levy - Portland Oregonian
starstarstar Jack Mathews - Newsday
starstar Richard Schickel - TIME

One of the year’s best films for a lot of reasons, including its ability to involve the audience almost breathlessly in a story of mounting tragedy . . . The performances can be described only as flawless

- Roger Ebert

There’s neither intricacy nor surprise in the narrative, and these dopes are tedious, witless company

- Richard Shickel

A Simple Plan

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A pact to secretly split a large sum of money quickly turns good friends into greedy, murderous enemies. Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Brent Briscoe, Bridget Fonda, Jack Walsh, Chelcie Ross, Becky Ann Baker, Gary Cole. Director: Sam Raimi (1998, R)

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