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32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaThe Core is unabashed Hollywood spectacle, but with a cast of up-from-indie actors that makes the cataclysmic kitsch all the more fun to behold.
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliSo howlingly awful that it has unwittingly found a place in that elite group of films that can claim to be "so bad they're good."
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertI have such an unreasonable affection for this movie, indeed, that it is only by slapping myself alongside the head and drinking black coffee that I can restrain myself from recommending it.
- 60VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyMore palatable than most pictures of its ilk due to its keen awareness of its own preposterousness, a self-knowledge exuberantly expressed by a mostly live-wire cast.
- 60Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesThe talented cast--manages to rescue the movie as well as the earth.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonElaborate misfire, which misuses an unusually good cast.
- 50SalonStephanie ZacharekSalonStephanie ZacharekThere's a refreshing surefootedness in the way Amiel, his screenwriters Cooper Layne and John Rogers, and most of his actors recognize how preposterous the idea of traveling to the center of the earth in a souped-up Rototiller really is.
- 50Baltimore SunMichael SragowBaltimore SunMichael SragowThe real obstacle here is a lack of filmmaking imagination.
- 38Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanI've just seen The Core, and I have a piece of advice for Hilary Swank: Don't quit your night job.