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Public Enemies
Positive Reviews
144
Negative reviews
50
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1.5
Its a remarkable, fleeting moment in a movie that often struggles to live up to the power of its best scenes.
Av Club
2.0
Public Enemies re creates clothes, but doesnt fully fashion the man who wore them.
EW
4.4
This is a very good film, with Depp and Bale performances of brutal clarity.
Rogerebert
1.5
Sure, Depp knows how to act on a human scale hes never been more thoughtful or convincing than in Lasse Hallstrms Whats Eating Gilbert Grape but it do ..
Austin Chronicle
3.0
Its a fascinating moment in history, and Mann captures the cars, the guns and the buildings with painstaking, immersive authenticity.
Time Out
3.1
Theirs is an affair constructed with rote Hollywood ish brushstrokes, making it seem driven not by passion or logic but by screenwriting necessity, an ..
1.5
It lacks the mustiness of a period piece.Its definitely not a history lesson in disguise.
4.5
There is so much going on in Public Enemies that its a shame some of the ideas didnt come into greater focus.
Collider
1.5
Sadly, Public Enemies is too slick and cold in its reflexivity and theres nothing for audiences to grab on to.
Collider
3.5
You cant tear your eyes off her any more than you can Manns flawed but still engrossing picture.
4.3
The story in Public Enemies has already been told, sometimes in films more exciting but rarely more thoughtful than this one.
Paste Magazine
2.5
Weve been left with a film that cant settle on which history it wants to tell and ends up dispelling the myth that a new film by Michael Mann is a cau ..
E Film Critic
5.0
A sumptuously designed and minutely detailed work that manages to remain compelling despite its essential familiarity while featuring top notch contri ..
E Film Critic
3.8
Mann takes on a great American subject, but with no desire to make a great American statement.
San Francisco Chronicle
5.0
So hard and fast and vivid comes the digital detail Intelligent and challenging: Manns crime epic could take two viewings to fully absorb, but its wor ..
3.0
Mann fanatics and other purists will probably argue this is the goal of the art film, but the narrative just feels genuinely unfocused, chasing after ..
Cinema Blend
3.0
Luckily, its another effortless move for a guy who can do no wrong.
Ny Daily News
3.0
Great performances, great camera work, but just not engrossing. It did accomplish one thing though. It made me want to go read a book on Dillinger so ..
JoBlo
3.5
Overly crisp, detailed and bright.I like that look on my TV, but on the big screen of a movie theater it just seemed odd and out of place.
Screen Rant
2.5
Public Enemies should have been his grand opus.Instead, the film feels restrained and pictorial.
The Globe And Mail
2.0
There are enough good moments to please Manns fans, but the Transformers crowd may be lost.
Philly
2.0
A stylish stiff, hobbled by surprisingly uncharismatic lead performances from its stars.
One Guys Opinion
4.5
He seems no more able to stop robbing banks than Mann is to stop making movies.
Village Voice
3.0
Its well crafted, finely acted and an arty looking gangster pic with machine guns blazing away throughout, but it never reaches the heart and is an em ..
Sover
3.8
The directors objective is to emphasize drama over suspense and, as a result, the kind of fast pace and narrative momentum often associated with a thr ..
ReelViews
3.8
Public Enemies (2009) 3 Stars (out of 4) Tweet Gang Time By Jeffrey M. Anderson What Michael Mann has achieved with the new Public Enemies is to captu ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
1.0
Food & Drink Feature Slideshow The Real American Pie Mince pie was once inextricable from our national identity.
Chicago Reader
3.0
This is a rich film, covering the end of one era blossoming into a more modern one with personal and societal detail.Mann makes the point that celebri ..
2.5
As a result, Collateral is tremendously uneven veering wildly between gripping and diverting.
Reel Film Reviews
2.0
Despite the great performances and the relative historical accuracy and the great production design, taking us back to the 1930s, it still doesnt seem ..
Lariat
2.0
One of the very first films to last longer than a couple minutes and tell a complete story was The Great Train Robbery, a hugely influential 12 minute ..
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
Its not bad by any means except for Manns apparent refusal to give up his digital handheld camera and thus subject viewers to the equivalent of watchi ..
Screen It
3.0
What it needs is the old fashioned simplicities: a bit more black and white; a bit more bang bang.
Independent
4.4
What else you need to know.The patter is pure Hollywood, but Depp and the vibrantly touching Cotillard give the relationship a potent intimacy.
Rolling Stone
4.5
Watching him hide in plain sight is utterly riveting, as is his simmering chemistry with the wonderful Cotillard.
Shadows On The Wall
3.0
The Nature of Imitation is the sound of Dorian Concept systematically deconstructing various genres, stripping them back to the bones underneath and t ..
Pop Matters
4.0
However, while the film is undeniably beautifully shot, you occasionally find yourself wishing Mann had gone with the traditional glossy Hollywood app ..
View London
3.8
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News Day
2.0
It tills the old ground, albeit with new style star power and Manns signature cinematic flourishes.
Cs Monitor
2.5
You would hardly know the Great Depression has hit its depths for all the fancy costumes and the shiny cars, all of which look like theyve just been d ..
New York Post
4.5
Whether or not Universals summer counterprogramming strategy succeeds, Public Enemies deserves to be on adult audiences wanted list.
Film Journal International ..
4.4
It certainly features terrific performances by the cast, especially the leads.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.5
Public Enemies is a good movie sometimes very good that could have been a great one.
Az Central
2.5
What remains undiminished is Johnny Depps almost unholy screen magnetism.
Boston
3.5
A strangely distant, quasi demythification of the tale of John Dillinger that keeps threatening to turn into a truly fine movie without ever quite pul ..
Mountain X
5.0
Michael Manns new film is a white hot crime drama, but just beneath its bullet pocked surface are substantial insights about the limits of law enforce ..
Star Tribune
4.5
Im not sure thats a bad thing.But it is an intellectual thing, which means its not the kind of thing that American audiences tend to want from a movie ..
3.8
14A Michael Manns Public Enemies is so darkly gorgeous you want to spray whipped cream on it and eat it like chocolate cake.
Toronto Star
3.0
Opinions will differ about Depps iconic approach but this supremely mounted, painstakingly researched, well acted gangster epic is Michael Manns most ..
Emanuellevy
2.0
Depp is a film star impersonating a gangster.Warren Oates is a gangster trying to act like a film star.
Guardian
3.0
This was the scofflaw who in the depths of the Depression was turned into a national celebrity both by a sensation hungry press and the fledgling Fede ..
Guardian
2.5
But anytime I start thinking about something like this while watching a film, it takes me away from the total immersion experience I expect from a mov ..
Reel Talk Reviews
2.5
For all its surface beauty and energetic gunplay, this underwritten picture doesnt cut very deep and is rather unmoving.
Reel Talk Reviews
3.8
A lot of the beats are a bit too familiar from previous entries in the series, which isnt surprising given that this is the fifth film to play off the ..
Q Network
1.0
It looks the business, but has no depth, nothing to say, no new angle.It just feels like a homage to older, better films, like Scarface, White Heat an ..
Daily Mail
2.0
Instead, its like spending an afternoona long oneat a beautifully lit wax museum display inspired by earlier gangster movies.
Slate
5.0
This isnt the glamour of the movies, warmly draped in celluloid, but rather an instantaneous, stunning reality: every facial pore, every herringbone s ..
Empire
4.0
Itll probably look a lot better on a small screen but in the cinema large portions of it just look shoddy.
Eye For Film
2.0
The fashions and cars of the era are romanticised symbols that echo an age of machismo and the Wild West after it had moved East.
3.5
And I especially like it when its beautifully and elegantly shot, as if each frame of film were going to wind up in a museum somewhere.
Movies
5.0
Most of the thugs, and the lawmen, too, dress in perfectly tailored suits and wear their pomaded hair swept back, like the grilles of those fast cars. ..
New Yorker
1.5
All this docudrama grit allows for precious little dramatic juice.
Time
3.0
Americas love affair with gangsters and gangster movies started when such writers as 1920s Chicago crime reporter Ben Hecht and novelist W.R. Burnett ..
Boston Herald
3.0
Nobody can know if that ever happened but it is a great way to depict his devil may care attitude.
Express
1.9
Also entering the equation is Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard), a middle class beauty searching for adventure and finding it in Dillinger.
The Movie Boy
3.0
This is probably what Dillinger deserves the man was, after all, a sociopath and a murderer but is that what Purvis deserves
Bullz-Eye
4.0
Manns extraordinarily stubborn decision to stick with a class of high definition video that variously flares, blurs and conceals parts of the frame ma ..
The Irish Times
3.0
Like Miami Vice, its a film whose execution often fails to live up to its ambitions, but like all of Manns films, it has a level of seriousness and cr ..
Las Vegas Weekly
4.0
Despite moving like a getaway wagon, the plot is the least interesting thing about Manns latest crime epic.
Total Film
4.0
With Public Enemies, he has made an impressive film of great formal skill, one that inescapably has a brooding dark night of the soul quality about it ..
Calendar Live
3.0
For a movie with such a gifted cast appealing subject matter and riveting action sequences Public Enemies is oddly boring.
Hollywood
2.5
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Tony Medley
2.0
The spectacle of blaring machine guns, antique car chases, and hurried prison escapes is not without moments of sheer entertainment.
Coles Mithey
3.8
The screenplays layers reveal themselves gradually, the film having a documentary like verisimilitude that is at times absolutely electric.
Movie Freak
4.0
Due to the films summer release, some might go in expecting something far more exciting or action packed, but Mann makes it more about the characters ..
3.8
In the end, Mann gives us a cracking good action picture grafted with synthetic tragedy.
Groucho Reviews
4.5
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Hit Fix
4.4
That said, what I believe makes it special is that it really explores the concept that one has to be a little stuck on oneself to commit a crime in th ..
Aisle Seat
2.5
Instead of glamorizing the early 20th century thug life, it humanizes it a little too much. This drags the movie down and is not the reason I like to ..
7M Pictures
2.5
Look, the real wonder of WW84 is that this maybe isnt the worst thing about it.
Film Freak Central
2.0
And Bale does a generous amount of squinting and nostril flaring.
E Online
4.5
Director Michael Manns return to crime is a breathtaking gangster movie shot in unusual though spectacular digital high definition.
Film Ink
4.5
A triumph of pure cinema, Public Enemies is one of the most visually experimental films of Manns career.
The Age
3.0
...a thinking mans gangster movie. While theres plenty of action for those looking for a shoot em up, its a decidedly cold blooded affair
Maki At The Movies
3.0
While it doesnt do much to separate itself from the existing band of no holds barred gangster flicks, director Michael Mann skillfully makes this film ..
3.0
But it is also something of a flawed epic, lacking the gripping script and sense of real drama that has defined other gangster classics.Instead it dwe ..
Mirror
4.0
But, suffice it to say that this is a slightly too long (at 140 minutes), very handsomely mounted gangster movie with brilliantly staged action and te ..
Varia Gate
2.0
There are no surprises except that Mann (who brought us searing thriller Heat) has managed to completely miss the point.
Digital Spy
4.5
Theres a sense of tragedy and betrayal as we approach the end that makes it great drama, and deeply satisfying.
Abc
3.0
Only Depp prevents the film sinking beneath its own weight. His performance is so stunning, the rest of the big name cast is almost wasted as he absor ..
Nz Herald
4.5
As sophisticated as it is entertaining, Public Enemies isnt the sort of film thats usually associated with the summer. But it has more than enough fir ..
Stl Today
4.5
Public Enemies is original because everyone, outlaw and enforcer, criminal and cop, looks and behaves the same.
Ft
4.4
Public Enemies is Heat with fedoras, a gangster epic that is easily the best and most rewarding thing the director has done in more than a decade, an ..
Christianity Today
1.9
Hyper romanticized revisionist history reflecting Americas ongoing love affair with gangsters.
News Blaze
4.5
Like being ordered to have long hair and smile on stage, but wondering how to smile with a trombone in your mouth.Or repeatedly told youre not good en ..
News Blaze
3.5
Its not a movie that begs the audience to like it or tries to seduce the audience with its style.
Hollywood And Fine
4.0
Public Enemies is a thoroughly detailed and engaging crime epic, which traces the criminal exploits and pursuit of infamous gangster, John Dillinger.
Matts Movie Reviews
2.0
Its not really any sort of dramatic feature, but merely an empty vessel for Michael Mann to spin furious circles, shedding much of the vanguard appeal ..
Brian Or Ndorf
4.4
But no modern director feels as attuned to crimes contradictions, punishments perils and roiling emotions.
The Filmy Ap
2.0
And its every bit as dull and pretentious as a stroll down the runway.Mann, what a mess.
Patriot Ledger
3.5
The film is not great, but it is very good in most respects, and a few isolated moments achieve greatness.
Antagony & Ecstasy
3.8
I often wish Michael Mann spent as much time crafting a script has he does a camera shot, but Id never begrudge this talented director his style.That ..
Big Picture Big Sound
2.1
Ultimately, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs has stunning animation and manages to be mildly amusing, but it fails to entertain kids and adults simultan ..
Nyc Movie Guru
3.8
Spare the rod or spoil the film.Should Public Enemies be judged on its merit, or do its Wisconsin connections mean it gets graded on a curve
Js Online
4.5
The film kicks you in the balls with awesomeness, but is smart enough not to turn back and keep kicking you until you forget youre being kicked.
Movie Web
4.0
Despite scores of cinematic achievements and veritable character representations, Public Enemies loses points on its pacing.
Hollywood Chicago
2.0
As for Delbert, he had swept the 1956 Oscars with Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, and Best Director for the wildly overrated Marty.
Film Comment
3.0
Luckily, Depp is the perfect anti hero, a screen filling portrait of unaffected self confidence and charisma.
Sky
3.5
He succeeds to a point, although the film is over long at 140 minutes and the narrative lacks urgency and tension.
Sbs
2.0
This weeks TLS October 12, 2018 Visions of modern India; the Odyssey in reception, translation and imagination; what German nationalism did to the ide ..
Entertainment Times Online ..
2.5
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
3.0
Its looking more and more like Michael Mann will never be able to recapture that Heat hotness.
The Shiz Nit
2.0
Those anticipating crackling, Heat style cat and mouse Al Pacino/Robert de Niro face offs will be left like disappointed kittens without the cream.
Metro
4.5
Mann depicts the giddy excesses and fearsome violence of Dillingers raids with his customary savage grace.
What So
1.5
A lesson in how watching a man in front of the camera hit his mark can make one wish the man behind the camera had such true aim.
Or Lando Weekly
4.5
Mann has shown an ability to create an interesting crime drama. He doesnt fail here, capturing the era to perfection, but there is an almost distant f ..
Bowling Green Daily News
3.0
A movie doesnt have to be about what makes its protagonist tick; he can be an enigma, and it can still be a good movie.
Decent Films
2.0
It takes a good film to overcome the awful burden of an educated audience, and sadly, Public Enemies is not a good film.
Streaming Quickflix
4.0
Michael Manns Public Enemies never lacks for interest, or interesting info.
Wsj
4.5
Its not necessary to know much about John Dillinger, or the early FBI, or even the classic Hollywood gangster movies of the 1930s and 1940s, in order ..
East Bay Express
1.5
You desperately want to be grabbed and taken along for what should be one of the most exciting true stories in history, but instead youre stuck wonder ..
4.0
Michael Manns brilliant and deceptive new film is full of such themes lurking in its shadows.Thats what makes it provocative, challenging, and rewardi ..
Tony Mack
3.0
What is refreshing is to see an old school gangster flick with a stellar cast.
From The Balcony
5.0
Manns best film since Heat is arguably the best movie anyones made since Heat.
Film4
3.0
Uses the gangster movie form to say something profound and unexpected about the way we respond to evil.
Film Blather
4.0
No obsolete notions of sentimentality.We are in the modern age, and we are making history.
New City Film
3.0
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Review Express
1.5
The movie ends with a line of dialogue so startlingly inane that it leaves the picture flapping on the screen like a punctured balloon. It may be the ..
M Tv
4.0
This is a phenomenal movie by any means rambunctious, fast paced, charismatic and engaging.
Future Movies
3.0
Though the film is very accomplished, it lacks the wow factor and real depth of purpose to set it apart.
Fan The Fire Magazine
2.0
America in the throes of a depression idolized them as heroes. They robbed hated banks. Some think todays bank robbers actually run them but thats com ..
Tri City Herald
3.8
The movie tangentially holds your interest, but could have been so much better if it had developed a rooting interest for one side or the other.
Entertainment Spectrum
2.5
Mann seems undecided about what he wants Enemies to accomplish, so he tries a little bit of everything.
Boston Phoenix
3.5
The beginning took a long while to heat up, so the cutting could have probably began there.But it was entertaining, but quite long.
Reel Talk Online
4.5
Public Enemies isnt my No. 1 of the year, but its close. Even more powerful than Depp is the way Mann controls this films look and feel.
The Scorecard Review
4.5
There is much to admire in this film... But its as if the whole thing has been emotionally cauterised. It holds you at arms length. As such, I found i ..
Spectator
1.5
Somehow this bigger than life, true cat and mouse saga never fully hits the heights of its ambitions or the capabilities of its cast.
Cambridge Day
3.0
More interesting than involving, Public Enemies focuses on history at the expense of the characters that lived that history. Its all story without emo ..
Detroit News
3.0
Describes as well as any other recent film the adage Live fast, die young, and leave a handsome body.
Compuserve
4.5
This is a serious and embarrassing error of judgement, and Im glad Sky has called it out.
News
4.5
She is Public Enemies real strongest asset, the heart and soul that grounds Dillingers sly and charming bank robber, giving the otherwise cold and dis ..
The Dispatch (Lexington, N ..
2.4
What results is a biopic that works overtime to stymie audience expectations, offering sporadically successful grace notes from moment to moment at th ..
Movie Martyr
3.0
In the hands of Michael Mann the film looks great, feels deliberate, and effectively explores our cultures fascination with outlaws.
Film.com
2.5
Were so many details used on the production design that none were left over for the story
Metromix.com
5.0
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Ny Press
3.1
The entire production feels less like a fully put together, immersive piece of cinema than a polished home movie rendering of people playing dress up.
Critics Notebook
3.0
Depps performance overcomes every flaw in the film. He ends up playing Dillinger exactly as he should be suave, mysterious, romantic, but with obvious ..
Week In Rewind
2.0
In this era where we all hate banks (as Mojo Nixon once sang) does Hollywood really want to put out a film that glorifies bank robbers Obviously yes.
Eclipse Magazine
4.0
... as strange and exhilarating as riding the running board of John Dillingers fast, shiny, black getaway car.
MSN Movies
2.5
A generic title for one of the most generic, forgettable biopics in recent memory.
The Diva Review
3.0
In this diligent but somehow chilly and uninvolving retelling of the story the details seems right and Depp delivers a performance of enormous depth, ..
Movie Mom
3.5
Its overlong and too many narrative strands contain little purpose.
Cinema Autopsy
4.5
A seasoned genre filmmaker at the height of his game; still able to turn even one of his lesser works into something classy and gripping.
Patrick Nabarro
3.8
Michael Mann shows some restraint and comes up big with this one.
Premiere Magazine
3.1
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2 The Advocate
4.4
The great theme of Public Enemies is the inevitability and finality of death.
Gomemphis
3.0
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Cine Rina
3.0
Public Enemies is a strange and cool (as opposed to warm or dull) picture, a modernist symphony about a man who styled himself a latter day Robin Hood ..
Blog Oregonlive
4.5
Crudup as Hoover is chilling in an understated, disturbing fashion.
World Socialist Web Site
2.0
It was tough to get caught in those days. These FBI guys couldnt catch an STD from Brett Michaels.
Movie Juice
2.0
The highlights are too few, and come far too late in the hefty 140 minute running time. This film is an attempt at great art that fails.
News Of The World
2.0
Public Enemies succeeds in having its cake and eating it too, exemplifying Hollywood filmmaking the way its supposed to be.
Mania.com
3.0
What could have been Michael Manns masterpiece ends up being a bland, slow, emotionless film with a couple of brilliant scenes sprinkled in the mix.
3.1
This period gangster saga may be filled with exciting gun battles yet cant deliver the firepower in ways that matter the most.
3.0
This romance is a real romance; these clichs are good clichs. The result is a conflicting and haunting experience.
Deep Focus
1.3
Could be a battle of wits and wills. Instead, its a battle to stay awake.
Dc5
3.0
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This Is London
2.0
Even as a valentine to gangster movies, Public Enemies leaves you wishing that you, like Dillinger on the last night of his life, were watching Manhat ..
MSNBC
3.8
Michael Mann, director of Public Enemies has capped an extremely impressive decade of work with a movie that approaches greatness but just misses.
Washington Times
3.3
While Public Enemies is a well made, well acted, well written film, its one without a spark at the center to make it truly special.
Chud
4.0
So yes, this is a gangster movie worth seeing, and it should be seen on the big screen.Depp is one the main reasons to see it.
Ma Cleans
2.0
As much as the film had bang for the buck, it just did not cut it.
Jo Reviews
3.1
Public Enemies is exactly what summer audiences deserve a smart, sophisticated action movie. So why does it feel like a letdown
Washington Times
1.5
Public Enemies isnt a bad film, and its mostly entertaining, but there was the possibility of a really great film in there somewhere. Unfortunately, t ..
Movie City News
3.1
Step 1: Expect good but not great.Despite the clear talent behind this highly competent film, it is a little disappointing Public Enemies is not as Be ..
The Movie Kit
4.5
Audience members who find themselves on the same wavelength as Mann and his screenwriters will find enough to talk about to keep them raving about Pub ..
Movie Retriever
4.5
Fresh it isnt but audiences hungry for an emotionally gratifying, familiar going movie experience after a spate of spiritless boom crash, characterles ..
Knight At The Movies
5.0
Shot in pin sharp high definition, this is one amazing looking movie, where even the most ordinary scenes crackle with energy and suspense. As with He ..
Daily Mirror (UK)
2.8
After all the gunfire exchanges, theres not much time for the human exchange. Neither for the leads or the colorful secondary characters. Such gloriou ..
2.0
Its flat and direct, and when a line or two slips out that sounds like it wants to elevate Dillingers life into a grand theme, its quickly hammered do ..
Ie Weekly
3.0
Public Enemies finds a bit slower on his feet. The film lacks the narrative dexterity of Collateral and The Insider. And the end result veers between ..
Courier Mail (Australia)
3.0
Certainly worth a look, but you might feel that Mann keeps his characters, apart from Billie, at arms length.
Courier Mail (Australia)
3.0
Though less ravishing than Miami Vice, Public Enemies again finds Michael Mann forging new ground in the digital arts.
Projection Booth Blog Spot ..
3.1
Never mind crime, Im declaring the nations first war on hand held cameras.
Sea Coast Online
4.0
Michael Manns Public Enemies is epic filmmaking with B movie content.
Culture Catch
4.0
The rest of the cast is made up mostly of men with thick faces and big hands, a Midwestern menagerie of the swollen and surly.
Tnr
3.7
Sure, Public Enemies can still boast Manns crisp HD aesthetics and stylistic cool but the showdown between Dillinger and Purvis lack ... well ... Heat ..
Ask Men
3.0
Mann never quite transforms any of it into something cohesive. Its if he has decided to present us with lots of stunning raw material and expects us t ..
4.5
Dillinger is a deeply compelling character, a true anti hero that you cant help but root for, and Depp captures every facet of his personality.
2.0
It lacks the cinematic gravitas to stand alongside classic gangster epics like Bonnie and Clyde and The Untouchables.
Movie Mantz
2.5
...this is pure 1930s movie escapism, which would be fine if Spinottis camera was up to the task of capturing the contrast between the glitzy dance ha ..
Blog Spout
3.0
This battle of the best comes off as far too close to HEAT for my liking, and it doesnt come anywhere near the dizzy heights of this classic crime fli ..
What Culture
4.5
All of which seems like a real treatwho doesnt want to watch that But thats not really the movie made by director Michael Mann and company.
3.0
It offers a fairly stylish, well shot look at the legend of Dillinger with some brilliant action pieces, but lacks what should be at the heart of a fi ..
Ign
4.5
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Heart London
2.5
... Depp has a few solid scenes that spark to life, only to have the spark fail to ignite a consistent interest in the story.
Ac Weekly
1.0
Its an adult drama that tells a great historic story... a story about eras changing... a very strong dramatic movie on a very big scale.
Mcn Blogs
1.5
Just because you cry while watching your daughter sing in Cats doesnt mean we have to.)
Leitch Tumblr
4.5
Its refreshing to see some grown up mainstream filmmaking during the summer months. The film shows you can have star driven action films that also del ..
IGN Movies UK
3.5
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Giant Blackplanet
1.5
Mann and his writers recount Dillingers story clearly and with more historical accuracy than some of the earlier film versions, but youre left wonderi ..
3.5
Ultimately what the writers achieve is a fascinating cat and mouse game between the hunted and the hunters.
Back Stage
4.0
Public Enemies isnt quite a summer blockbuster but its got more brains and guts than almost anything else playing out there, and stands as a fascinati ..
2.0
Its hard to forget the dying breath of a gangster seen as vapor in the night air.These are the primary tools within Manns filmmaking toolbox.
Kineto Film Blog Spot
4.0
It might sound damning to say that the film resembles a bullet riddled carcass just barely clinging to life, but its exactly this ephemeral sensation, ..
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2.0
Thinking In a summer movie After sitting through Transformers twice (five hours of my life) in the past week, the mere ratta tat tat of a Tommy gun is ..
Pilot Online
4.0
I kid, but its definitely true that disreputable types that you would never ever want to associate with in real life have never gone out of style as f ..
Towle Road
4.4
Public Enemies knows the language of the gangster movie so well, and yet director Michael Mann has taken it and created something exciting and new out ..
Capital Times (Madison, WI ..
3.0
Adheres to the historical facts of Dillingers well documented tapestry of brazen daylight heists, gritty shootouts and improbable jailbreaks.
American Profile
1.5
Some strong performances, but I expected more from this great director and stellar cast.
4.5
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