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

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

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

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

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

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

Marc Levin, whose last documentary, Protocols of Zion, was a gutsy examination of post-9/11 anti-Semitism, has an even tougher job on his hands with Leroy 'Nicky' Barnes: making the man interesting.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 25, 2007

A fascinating first-person account of drug kingpin and ruthless gangster Nicky Barnes, whose outrageous story of rise, rule, rage, and revenge requires no such stylistic filler.

Full Review | Oct 23, 2007

Marc Levin may avoid outright idol-worship, but any restraint exhibited by his film is disingenuous.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2007