Reviews

• Cox brilliantly underplays Avery, Sizemore is perfect as the arrogant dad, and the three boys (Noel Fisher, Kyle Gallner and Shiloh Fernandez) are right on pitch. Red the dog's pretty wonderful, too.

  - New York Post
  
  27 April 2013

• Red's dialogue is a bit blunt, its characters are too broadly outlined, and the situation verges on the ludicrous at times, especially in the way these dumb kids keep committing terrible crimes without leaving any evidence. But the movie isn't meant to be an exercise in realism.

  Noel Murray - The A.V. Club
  
  27 April 2013

• Touchy subject matter aside, Red demonstrates real elegance in its commitment to a relatively straightforward story, allowing the characters' emotions to come to a slow boil.

  - Variety
  
  27 April 2013

• Its earnest, always incomplete quest haunts us in ways stock imagery cannot.

  - The Washington Post
  
  27 April 2013

• Once Avery's mission assumes a Freudian dimension, the allegory loses its moral force and changes from a meditation on justice, power and inequality into a gory melodrama.

  Stephen Holden - The New York Times
  
  27 April 2013