Kathryn Bigelow has realized a film where not one frame lacks interest. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 2, 2022

...interrogates the notion of gun worship, all within the confines of a shoot-em-up police thriller.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 19, 2022

Thumbs up for Blue Steel... with a grain of salt.

| Sep 16, 2022

A film that functions better as an academic case study than a compelling thriller with behaviors that make sense on logical or emotional grounds.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 27, 2022

Bigelow reinforces narrative conventions even as she disrupts them.

| May 21, 2020

It's a fairly run-of-the-mill premise that should've, by all rights, resulted in a generic blank-from-hell thriller...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 8, 2020

What Blue Steel captured was a certain moment in the 1990s when the psychosexual thriller reigned supreme, with a blending of sensuality and menace.

| Mar 25, 2020

The thriller maintains a high quality of production values despite lacking a convincing message.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 12, 2016

Blue Steel turns into yet another movie about Jamie Lee Curtis bravely fighting off a bogeyman. It's Halloween 1990. Still, Bigelow's talent cuts through in flashes.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 6, 2008

Underrated Kathryn Bigelow gem.

| May 26, 2006

The thriller inadvertently becomes an exercise in erotic violence: Director Bigelow turns the heroine's uniform and gun into fetishism, making her film a field day for Freudian psychologists.

| Original Score: C+ | May 5, 2006

Short on plausibility but preserving the psycho-sexual ambiguities throughout, Bigelow's seductively stylish, wildy fetishistic thriller is proof that a woman can enter a traditionally male world and, like Megan, beat men at their own game.

| Feb 9, 2006

A captivating and thrilling whodunnit....Silver's tops

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 25, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 12, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 16, 2004

A routine crime thriller that surprisingly adds some off-kilter punch to its run-of-the-mill psychological edginess.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 22, 2003

Jamie Lee Curtis makes Megan so appealing and real that the film holds together even when it has no reason to.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 18, 2003