3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Depp and the vibrantly touching Cotillard give the relationship a potent intimacy....It's movie dynamite."
Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 4 -- "Director Michael Mann mounts a technically proficient, visually enthralling crime drama anchored by the low-key but captivating performance of Johnny Depp..."
USA Today 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "This Johnny Depp performance is something else....This is a very good film, with Depp and Bale performances of brutal clarity."
Chicago Sun-Times "[A]n impressive film of great formal skill, one that inescapably has a brooding dark-night-of-the-soul quality about it....The beauty and skill of the filmmaking keep you tightly in its grasp."
Los Angeles Times "Michael Mann's PUBLIC ENEMIES is a grave and beautiful work of art....It revisits with meticulous detail and convulsions of violence a short, frantic period in the life and bank-robbing times of John Dillinger..."
New York Times "[M]arvelously detailed and meticulously crafted, an elegant evocation of Depression-era America and its fascination with crime."
Wall Street Journal 3 stars out of 4 -- "Johnny Depp continues to make great choices and plays Dillinger as both charming and sinister."
Premiere 4 stars out of 5 -- "[O]rdinary scenes become electrifying experiences as Mann takes an old story and makes it feel new and unexpected....Packed with fresh tension and atmosphere..."
Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Mann] has a strong eye for forensic detail that ramps up the vividness of the film."
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