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(1 - 50) of 53 OFCS Rating: 77% Fresh Page   12   > Next "It is as though Scott, like his protagonist Frank, has gone back to source, bringing viewers the most refined product available."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel A "American Gangster is good old-fashioned knuckles-to-the-jaw entertainment."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 4/5 "American Gangster is an oddly one note movie made more or less grandiose by Ridley Scott's insatiable desire to overload the screen with superfluous details."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron B "Denzel Washington has become the John Wayne of his generation: perfecting his one acting face of mild displeasure and sticking to his guns the rest of his career."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf 2.5/5 "takes what should have been a mesmerizing slice of urban historical grit and grinds it into roughly two hours of standard issue cinema"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Barsanti B+ "Perfectly entertaining and suspenseful."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "As corny as Frank and Richie's relationship may appear, it returns again to the movie's central problem: it loves Frank and has to hate him."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/4 "...generally possesses the feel of a rough cut that's in dire need of trimming..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C+ "It all seemed like the usual big-budgeted and star-packed middlebrow liberal Hollywood gangster film veering between being serious and nonsensical."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "Strictly paint-by-numbers filmmaking any way you slice it, and not even the individually riveting performances from Washington and Crowe can save it."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 3/5 "Un policial de ritmo tenso y constante, que contrasta a dos personalidades bastante similares a ambos lados de la ley, mientras se deslizan críticas hacia la corrupción política, policial y militar que permite la existencia del narcotráfico."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B+ "Directed with dazzling energy by Ridley Scott."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3/4 "More like a whitewashed blaxploitation effort in the hopes of classing it up without the necessary respect paid to its origin; biography without context, but still an interesting and mostly entertaining one."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress B "Its politics could have muddled and distracted, but instead the presence of a point of view staved off biopic boredom."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 3.5/4 "Scott's film is a slow boil crime drama that serves as an indictment on American capitalism..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. 4/4 ""Alcanza el ideal de todo filme ambicioso: entretiene los sentidos y estimula las neuronas.""   Doncinema.com   Flavio J. Arosemena 3/4 "American Gangster dares to look in the menacing mirror and reflect the scabrous priorities that define some handsomely yet disillusion others hauntingly."   World Voice News   Frank Ochieng B- "It's not a bad movie, just not the classic one it's obviously striving to be...should prove solid entertainment if you don't go expecting too much."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/4 "Washington rules the screen. His portrayal is one of many things that elevates this film to the level of being consistently entertaining and occasionally compelling."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "an intriguing crime saga that is long on atmosphere and short on momentum"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 3/4 "American Gangster isn't bad or poorly-made or unsatisfactory; it's just good enough to make you painfully aware of all the ways it could have been better, too big and observed to watch as simple entertainment and too glossy and glib to watch as meaningful"   Cinematical   James Rocchi 5/10 "Click here to read review"   vj.net.ua   Jaroslav Vishtaljuk 2.5/4 "Ridley Scott pumps up the volume with a gritty, glitzy valentine to the anarchic American drug wars."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 8/10 "Sure we've seen this sort of thing before. But every time we see it, we're entertained."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 41/100 "With all of the bulk, but none of the substance, of your average epic production, American Gangster lumbers across the screen with such obviousness that it is almost shocking."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman 6/10 "Pet peeves aside though, both Denzel and Crowe delivered."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo "Heat, Part II"   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick "How much truth we get in the movie version is hard to say...nobody much cares if it's gospel, as long as it's riveting. Here, alas, it is not."   Film.com   Jonathan F. Richards 4.5/5 "anabionei maestrika to gkangksteriko drama palaias kopis, aporriptontas tis spasmodikes eksarseis bias ki ekrikseon, alla horis na krybei ta akonismena dontia poy deihnei sto dolofoniko tis ksekinima, poy ksekatharizei akribos ti eidoys gangster einai o A"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis "Let me say it again, this is the kind of movie that Oscar voters love."   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 3.5/4 "Superfly vs. Serpico!"   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest B- "...plays like Serpico by way of Scarface if Tony Montana was an accountant."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3/4 "Its vivid sense of place and time make it compulsively watchable, even at a running time of two and a half hours."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 2/3 "Aunque es un punto alto en su filmografía reciente y (...) no le irá mal en la temporada de premios, Scott ya no es lo que era (si es que alguna vez lo fue)."   Off-Off-Critica   MalaBesta 3/4 "A finely weaved tapestry of absolute corruption and its effects on the key players and those unlucky souls caught in the crossfire."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik B "As a showcase for Washington and Crowe, American Gangster does not disappoint."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer 6/10 "There is more to enjoy than to admire in the filmcraft of AMERICAN GANGSTER. This is an entertaining compilation of retread touches from good gangster films."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper "[B]rings together Crowe and Washington, both of whom stalk the screen, as they always do, as if The Movies were invented for them, and how freakin' explosive can it be to smash these guys into each other?"   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 4/4 "Ridley Scott carefully controls the tone so that we almost feel like a fly on the wall of an era in crime."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan 1/4 "Not only is American Gangster dumb as a rock, but it's also far too convinced of its import to be any fun."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 4/5 "Um filme envolvente que representa mais um alto na carreira repleta de baixos do instável Ridley Scott."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 4/5 "A well-made and reasonably exciting work filled with juicy performances, exciting set-pieces and a slick visual style, but there is very little on display here that we haven't already seen before in one form or another."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 3/5 "Impeccable production design and searing performances. But the tale unfolds in a superficial way that makes it impossible to care about what might happen."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 3/5 "Solidly performed and occasionally intriguing, but it's yet another strangely hollow offering from Ridley Scott."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves C "Frank Lucas is angry. You won't like him when he's angry."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick B "Scott's auteurial stamp lends the film a badly needed sense of distinction."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux B+ "The acting is great by everyone. Veteran director Ridley Scott puts it all together in a polished package."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten C "...a bloated crime tome that meanders far too much before it gets to its point. In addition, I did not care once I got there."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford "As a piece of storytelling -- built on the foundation of a great story -- it's an epic that's been sliced and diced into so many little morsels that almost nothing in it has any weight."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 7/10 "Well-crafted but eerily familiar....while they were making it, the crew dubbed it, "Superfly meets Serpico.""   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger  (1 - 50) of 53 OFCS Rating: 77% Fresh Page   12   > Next