| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B+ |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"...a fever-sprawl of a movie, a melting-pot panorama, brought to full boil." more... |
A- |
BBC
Nev Pierce |
"...both astounds and enthrals..." more... |
A |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"It is very good but not great." more... |
B+ |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
"...definitely the work of a master." more... |
A |
Cincinnati Enquirer
Margaret A. McGurk |
"...a work of harsh and fearless artistry from a master at the top of his form." more... |
A |
| E! Online |
"...wavers between being about the big picture and a character study--only to get lost like so many huddled masses." more... |
C+ |
filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell |
"...magnificent..." more... |
A- |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"Astonishing and audacious, the film certainly creates a kind of perverse beauty and excitement out of its horrors." more... |
B- |
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan |
"It has not been worth the wait." more... |
C- |
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman |
"Though never dull and often visually beautiful, this work of operatic sweep doesn't fulfill its own ambitions." more... |
B |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
"...a near-great movie." more... |
B+ |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"...something better than perfect: It's thrillingly alive." more... |
A |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"Though big in size, Gangs isn't big in ideas." more... |
B |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"It doesn't come together to tell a coherent story that leaves us with an emotion higher than disgust at its violence." more... |
B |
USA Today
Mike Clark |
"If Martin Scorsese's staggeringly ambitious one-of-a-kind finally has too many flaws to be great, it has as much greatness in it as any movie this year." more... |
A- |
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