| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"...mostly comes to life during the bank robberies..." more... |
C |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"This is very disciplined film." more... |
A- |
Chicago Tribune
Matt Pais |
"Too bad John Dillinger never stole any quality scripts." more... |
C |
E! Online
Natasha Vargas-Cooper |
"...off-key and forced." more... |
C- |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"Public Enemies re-creates clothes, but doesn't fully fashion the man who wore them." more... |
B- |
Filmcritic.com
Bill Gibron |
"...old fashioned filmmaking." more... |
B+ |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"A missed opportunity to make gangster picture with flesh-and-blood characters." more... |
C |
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan |
"Michael Mann and Johnny Depp make art of Dillinger." more... |
A- |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...disappointing, curiously uninvolving..." more... |
C |
New York Times
Manohla Dargis |
"...a grave and beautiful work of art." more... |
A |
Reelviews
James Berardinelli |
"...solid in both its storytelling and the way in which the narrative is represented on screen." more... |
B |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"...movie dynamite." more... |
A- |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"The only thing Public Enemies lacks is the sense of a story bigger than itself." more... |
B |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...a welcome adult alternative to summer's sophomoric blockbusters." more... |
B |
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