Reyes has obviously seen Goodfellas 50 or 60 times.

Full Review | Jan 2, 2003

Yes, we're walking those mean streets again. Good thing we're taking a few unanticipated turns.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 23, 2002

A yawningly familiar melodrama about an enterprising hustler who's undone by his own ambitions.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 10, 2002

This is the most predictable plot twist since The Greatest Story Ever Told. You really know this one is coming and it just ruins the whole movie.

Full Review | Dec 9, 2002

Like its protagonist, the movie tries to rise above convention, flails about a bit, and slides back into self-parody.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

This movie ... doesn't deserve the energy it takes to describe how bad it is.

| Dec 6, 2002

A retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by Martin Scorsese.

| Dec 6, 2002

Tries to pass off a scattered, cliched approximation of the real deal.

Full Review | Dec 6, 2002

A gangster movie with the capacity to surprise.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 6, 2002

Another excuse to trot out the usual ghetto-melodramatic bromides: What Happens When You Leave the Old Neighborhood Behind and Remembering Who Your Real Posse Is and, most of all, Respecting the Woman Who Loves You Best.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 6, 2002

The characters ... are paper-thin, and their personalities undergo radical changes when it suits the script.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Dec 6, 2002

A standard crime drama enlivened by its sense of time, place and character.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 6, 2002

It has the right approach and the right opening premise, but it lacks the zest and it goes for a plot twist instead of trusting the material.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 6, 2002

[Reyes] pushes his shopping cart through the ghetto-drug-flick warehouse, where all the merchandise has been picked over like a Filene's sale rack on the day after Thanksgiving.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 6, 2002

A predictable and stereotypical little B-movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 6, 2002

It's a grab bag of genres that don't add up to a whole lot of sense.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 6, 2002

You never believe for a minute that the character actor and comedian from Moulin Rouge and Summer of Sam is actually a once-ruthless drug dealer trying to go straight.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 6, 2002

Leaves no clich unturned; it's Old Jack City.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2002

The movie's action unfolds laboriously before us, dragged along, bumpety-bumpety, by the plodding voiceover that Leguizamo has the misfortune of delivering.

| Dec 6, 2002

Stereotypical, banally written bloodbath.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 5, 2002