Critic Reviews
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Dennis Harvey, Variety
Slanted as a black comedy, but fails to secure the sufficiently outre tone (let alone any real suspense) needed to make it more than a middling retread.
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Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"You've got a sense of humor, I like that," Lester Long proclaims at one point. Well, we all like that, but would it be asking too much to have a little coherence to go along with it?
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Within Clay Pigeons is a smaller story that might have involved us more, but it's buried by overkill.
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Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle
It's got unpredictable plot twists and unexpected laughs coming out of dark corners.
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James Berardinelli, ReelViews
This is one of those motion pictures where the director (David Dobkin, in his feature debut) and the writer (Matt Healy) are so concerned about developing a clever, serpentine plot that they forget that there has to be a credible ending.
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Cast
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Vince Vaughnas Lester Long -
Janeane Garofaloas Dale Shelby -
Joaquin Phoenixas Clay Bidwell
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Georgina Catesas Amanda -
Phil Morrisas Reynard -
Scott Wilsonas Sheriff Mooney






