Sucker Punch
Reception

Sucker Punch (2011)

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6.2
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 339,173 votes
6.3/10 70,309 votes Synced 2026-08-06
6.1/10 262,658 votes Synced 2026-08-20
Audience 6.3/10 985 votes Synced 2026-07-19
Critics 3.3/10 Synced 2026-07-19
Audience 4.7/10 Synced 2026-07-18
Critics 2.3/10 Synced 2026-07-18
6.2/10 5,221 votes Synced 2026-09-11

External reviews

Dan Jolin · Empire 60.00/100.00

Ambitious and visually impressive as a pop-video mash-up, but, lacking a strong emotional core, it doesn't quite cohere as a fully satisfying movie.

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Rene Rodriguez · Miami Herald 75.00/100.00

No, Sucker Punch doesn't make any sense. But none of that matters, because the ride Snyder takes you on is so vividly conceived, so deliriously bizarre and wonderful.

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Keith Uhlich · Time Out 60.00/100.00

Begins in the land of lunacy and ends up somewhere on the far side of deranged.

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Ty Burr · Boston Globe 50.00/100.00

It's a surprisingly joyless mash-up of every bit of fanboy flotsam floating around in its maker's cranium.

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Betsy Sharkey · Los Angeles Times 80.00/100.00

A wonderfully wild provocation - an imperfect, overlong, intemperate and utterly absorbing romp through the id that I wouldn't have missed for the world.

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Nathan Rabin · The A.V. Club 50.00/100.00

Browning has wildly expressive eyes and body language, but she turns wooden when delivering Snyder and Steve Shibuya's alternately purple and stilted banter. Like the film, she seems to regard plot and dialogue as necessary evils.

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Scott Bowles · USA Today 50.00/100.00

You've never seen a movie like Sucker Punch. And depending on your entertainment preferences, you may not want to.

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Andrew O'Hehir · Salon 80.00/100.00

Sucker Punch doesn't all work by a long shot, but it confirms my sense that Snyder belongs near the top of a very short list of directors who are trying to reinvent a personal, auteurist vision of cinema at the most commercial, mass-market, attention-disordered end of the spectrum.

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Shawn Levy · Portland Oregonian 75.00/100.00

It's a film that's at once too much and not enough, laughable and groovy, dead serious and a total joke. And I mean no disrespect by any of that.

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Mick LaSalle · San Francisco Chronicle 50.00/100.00

Though Zack Snyder is known as an action director, he is a genuine artist and one of the most exciting and promising filmmakers to emerge in the past 10 years. His new movie, Sucker Punch - let's just say it - is a failure, but there's so much talent on that screen that the movie can't be dismissed as a waste of time.

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