"...[LAKEBOAT] affords a glimpse of what separates Mr. Mamet from the world of his characters..." New York Times "...[Robert Forster] stands out in a blazing, award-caliber performance as Joe..." Rolling Stone "...Beautifully filmed....[Tony Mamet] is appealing in the ingenue role, and he's surrounded by a marvelous ensemble....[Forster] etches a brilliant portrait..." Movieline's Hollywood Life "...LAKEBOAT was the 10th play by David Mamet to be produced, but it feels like the wellspring. Here in the rough, awkward, poetic words of the crew members of a Lake Michigan ore boat, he finds the cadences that would sound through his work..." Chicago Sun-Times60.83223
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5 stars out of 5 -- "A truly phenomenal cast, great guest stars and complex, involving, emotional storylines..."Ultimate DVD25.30176
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"...Allen's surest instincts about the title subject are at work in the high-profile cast....[DiCaprio ends up] juicing the movie with a welcome power surge..."Entertainment Weekly "...[Allen] wields a double-edged satirical scalpel when it comes to the pretensions of the beautiful and famous..."Film Comment "...[A] keenly observant spoof of the fame game..."Rolling Stone "...Mr. Allen shows a keenly acerbic eye for the scene he sets..."New York Times25.23072
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"...Entertaining, deadpan, seriocomic melodrama....Mamet's screenplay builds much like a whopping good poker game..." New York Times Included in the New York Times "10 Best Films of 1987" New York Times "...Writer David Mamet's first trip behind the camera as director is entertaining good fun, an American film noir with Hitchcockian touches..." Variety "...A real curve ball....Mamet has elevated the dialogue to the foreground....GAMES is smart..." Film Comment "...Coldly absorbing....Mamet gives us the plot in crisp layers....[The] dialogue -- subtly rhythmed, pungent, terrifically well written -- carries the movie..." Los Angeles Times "...Mamet's dialogue starts with the plain red bricks of reality, and mortars them into walls that are slightly askew..." Chicago Sun-Times "With a parlor-trick plot and neon-lit cinematography right out of Edward Hopper's NIGHTHAWKS, GAMES is a con within a con within a con." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly22.20564
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"...Entertaining, deadpan, seriocomic melodrama....Mamet's screenplay builds much like a whopping good poker game..." New York Times Included in the New York Times "10 Best Films of 1987" New York Times "...Writer David Mamet's first trip behind the camera as director is entertaining good fun, an American film noir with Hitchcockian touches..." Variety "...A real curve ball....Mamet has elevated the dialogue to the foreground....GAMES is smart..." Film Comment "...Coldly absorbing....Mamet gives us the plot in crisp layers....[The] dialogue -- subtly rhythmed, pungent, terrifically well written -- carries the movie..." Los Angeles Times "...Mamet's dialogue starts with the plain red bricks of reality, and mortars them into walls that are slightly askew..." Chicago Sun-Times "With a parlor-trick plot and neon-lit cinematography right out of Edward Hopper's NIGHTHAWKS, GAMES is a con within a con within a con." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly22.20564
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"...Entertaining, deadpan, seriocomic melodrama....Mamet's screenplay builds much like a whopping good poker game..." New York Times Included in the New York Times "10 Best Films of 1987" New York Times "...Writer David Mamet's first trip behind the camera as director is entertaining good fun, an American film noir with Hitchcockian touches..." Variety "...A real curve ball....Mamet has elevated the dialogue to the foreground....GAMES is smart..." Film Comment "...Coldly absorbing....Mamet gives us the plot in crisp layers....[The] dialogue -- subtly rhythmed, pungent, terrifically well written -- carries the movie..." Los Angeles Times "...Mamet's dialogue starts with the plain red bricks of reality, and mortars them into walls that are slightly askew..." Chicago Sun-Times "With a parlor-trick plot and neon-lit cinematography right out of Edward Hopper's NIGHTHAWKS, GAMES is a con within a con within a con." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly22.17012
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"...Characteristic [of Mamet] and oddball....[Mantegna is] brilliantly funny..." New York Times Included in The New York Times "10 BEST FILMS OF 1988" New York Times "...Soaring visuals..." Film Comment "...Full of delicately stepped pirouettes through the pleasure palaces of the criminal underworld..." Los Angeles Times "...The is one of those 'little' movies where everything is perfectly scaled..."USA Today22.1346
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"...The most refreshing thing about BABY'S DAY OUT may be its absolute absurdity....[A] soap bubble of a movie with a slapstick heart..." New York Times "...The watercolor-hued sets are a pleasant nostalgia trip..." USA Today21.92148
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"...A mesmerizing thriller....Joe Mantegna delivers a brilliant, multifaceted performance..." Rolling Stone "...The dialogue is a pleasure....The bone-tired-don't-bother-me Mamet acting fits perfectly here..." Film Comment "...HOMICIDE absolutely holds your interest....It's a thrilling ride while it lasts, and it marks Mamet's emergence as a writer-director to be reckoned with..." Los Angeles Times "...[A] period piece, which gets by on sheer outrageousness..." USA Today "The dialogue is stark, bracing, and, in rough-and-tumble scenes at the stationhouse and with partner William H. Macy, funny to boot."Film Comment0.697874
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3 stars out of 4 -- "Ejiofor confirms his status as one of the best actors anywhere....The resonant stillness he brings to REDBELT pulls you in....Mamet is on his game, and that is a sight to see."Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 4 -- "Anchored by a powerful and nuanced performance by Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mamet's latest writing and directing effort is a compelling drama about the world of martial arts fighting."USA Today "[T]ricky and engrossing....A contemporary noir with a samurai movie interior, as sincere, plaintive and strangely optimistic a movie as he's made."Los Angeles Times "[T]he film's visual moderation, contained scale and ambition keep it well tethered. It's a tight film purely if not simply, which of course also means it's about he struggle to live."New York Times "Mamet regulars Ricky Jay and Joe Mantegna blend well with Mamet newbie Tim Allen, a treat as a spoiled-rotten aging Hollywood action star." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 4 -- "REDBELT offers a good deal of Mametian red meat while also trying to break out of some of the strictures that Mamet's erected around his own work."Premiere 4 stars out of 5 -- "Ejiofor is superbly centered and authoritative, completely in command of Mamet's mantra-like dialogue."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "Standing out in a cracking cast, Ejiofor is electric as a man being slowly driven to breaking point...it's enthralling and moving, proving that, even for David Mamet, actions can speak louder than words."Empire0.4805715
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3 stars out of 4 -- "Ejiofor confirms his status as one of the best actors anywhere....The resonant stillness he brings to REDBELT pulls you in....Mamet is on his game, and that is a sight to see."Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 4 -- "Anchored by a powerful and nuanced performance by Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mamet's latest writing and directing effort is a compelling drama about the world of martial arts fighting."USA Today "[T]ricky and engrossing....A contemporary noir with a samurai movie interior, as sincere, plaintive and strangely optimistic a movie as he's made."Los Angeles Times "[T]he film's visual moderation, contained scale and ambition keep it well tethered. It's a tight film purely if not simply, which of course also means it's about he struggle to live."New York Times "Mamet regulars Ricky Jay and Joe Mantegna blend well with Mamet newbie Tim Allen, a treat as a spoiled-rotten aging Hollywood action star." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 4 -- "REDBELT offers a good deal of Mametian red meat while also trying to break out of some of the strictures that Mamet's erected around his own work."Premiere 4 stars out of 5 -- "Ejiofor is superbly centered and authoritative, completely in command of Mamet's mantra-like dialogue."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "Standing out in a cracking cast, Ejiofor is electric as a man being slowly driven to breaking point...it's enthralling and moving, proving that, even for David Mamet, actions can speak louder than words."Empire0.4805715
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"Creator Barbara Hall avoids the saccharine Sunday-school sweetness...with her unflinching exploration of right and wrong..." Entertainment Weekly0.2486414
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"...A good entertainment bet worthy of any moviegoer's shell-out..." USA Today "...Valid and deeply moving....More frankly, mournfully operatic than its predecessors..." New York Times0.2131212
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"...Laugh licks and spirited performances..."Rolling Stone "...An enjoyable, sweet-natured farce....The characters are funny and likeable..."Sight and Sound "...AIRHEADS is spiked with in-jokes and appealing performances....There's a perfect out-there moment that will strike a feedback-warped chord with diehard heavy-metal fans..."USA Today0.2131212
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"...Laugh licks and spirited performances..."Rolling Stone "...An enjoyable, sweet-natured farce....The characters are funny and likeable..."Sight and Sound "...AIRHEADS is spiked with in-jokes and appealing performances....There's a perfect out-there moment that will strike a feedback-warped chord with diehard heavy-metal fans..."USA Today0.2131212
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"Mr. Macy, a master at playing sticks of human dynamite in mild-mannered camouflage, gives the nerviest screen performance of his career." New York Times "Macy -- the quintessential player of Mamet men in all their impacted rage -- stars in this claustrophobic adaptation." -- Grade: B- Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 4 -- "[B]risk and bracing....[A] small masterpiece..."Premiere "[A] sort of parable or dream play....In EDMOND Manet seems to be getting at something spiritual and essential."Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 5 -- "[The film] resembles a darker, alternative take on Joel Schumacher's FALLING DOWN..."Uncut0.177601
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"[Anselmo] works well with actors..." Rolling Stone "The performances are strong..."Chicago Sun-Times0.177601
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