| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

If it casts a slightly too favourable eye over the subject and his social impact, you can't begrudge the director his understanding of and affection for the period and its people.

| Aug 9, 2010

Like much of the story of Harlem in the '70s, the truth is the least important part.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 19, 2007

The principle at issue may not be plain to everyone, but "to those people inside the system of values, that's totally acceptable."

| Nov 14, 2007

Does the movie glorify Barnes and his nefarious profession? Probably, but show me a movie about the drug trade that doesn't hook us first with guts and glamour before the moralizing fall.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 9, 2007

One seriously confused documentary.

Full Review | Nov 6, 2007

A lackluster documentary that lionizes this creep while ignoring the damage that his distribution of drugs did to society and the many brutal murders he ordered.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 27, 2007

What emerges is a portrait of a complex man.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 26, 2007

Sometimes persuasive and sometimes sadly comical, but always fascinating.

| Oct 26, 2007

Levin was clearly captivated by the sheer spectacle of Barnes' career.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 26, 2007

It's not a pretty picture, but it sure is a compelling one.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 26, 2007

Mr. Untouchable is never dull.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 26, 2007

Less a dispassionate examination than a celebratory infomercial on its central character.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2007

[Director] Levin skillfully mixes the Barnes interviews with news clippings, 1970s street scenes and the recollections of Mr. Untouchable's former associates.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 26, 2007

On its own, Mr. Untouchable is a solid education on a specific period of time reigned over by a demon who willingly spread sickness to line his pockets.

| Original Score: B | Oct 26, 2007

What is most intriguing in the film are the words, indeed the presence, of Barnes himself.

| Oct 25, 2007

Legendary '70s heroin kingpin Leroy "Nicky" Barnes is filmed like a deposed king in exile in Mr. Untouchable, Marc Levin's slick look at one of New York's most notorious criminal masterminds.

| Original Score: B | Oct 25, 2007

It's fast and furious, and it proves that crime doesn't pay, unless you know how to do it right.

| Oct 25, 2007

Nonjudgmental without being morally dense, the film makes human sense out of an inhuman example of addiction capitalism, '70s style.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 25, 2007