Both versions qualify as high-toned hackwork fitfully redeemed by a good story and some incidental pleasures involving the casting and camera work.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 7, 2022

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011

What's most effective about the new Kiss of Death is Tucci's marvelously slimy prosecutor.

| Sep 19, 2008

A crackling thriller that feels unusually attuned to its lowlife characters.

| Sep 19, 2008

Cage and Caruso strike sparks in this riveting piece of pulp fiction, but it's that first Kiss you'll remember.

Full Review | Mar 7, 2005

It's a sleek, muscular thriller played by a terrific ensemble cast...

Full Review | May 20, 2003

A riveting crime drama.

| Jun 18, 2002

Cage, one of the few American actors who gets more interesting from film to film, comes close to kidnaping the picture as Little Junior, a pumped-up but asthmatic thug who, like King Kong, is a gorilla with a wistful air about him.

| Feb 13, 2001

Cage dominates the camera, stealing scenes by the sheer intensity of his inimitable strangeness.

| Jan 1, 2000

Schroeder's film is fun to watch, even when it's being predictable or brutal, but its memory is nearly gone the next day.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

If you savor movies about sleazy plea bargains and other lawyer hardballing, Death has its moments. Otherwise the latest from director Barbet Schroeder is only a movie of moments.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Caruso's acting is vivid, but amazingly quiet and internal, and it's fascinating to watch the kaleidoscopically conflicted emotions battle beneath his controlled surface.

| Jan 1, 2000

It shouldn't be disjointed and uncompelling, but it is.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: A | May 19, 1995