This is the type of stand-up-and-take-notice performance that burgeoning actors dream off, yet Pedraza is so effortless in her portrayal that I started to think she almost didn't have to try to be so wondrously beguiling.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 19, 2003

Assassination Tango runs aground with an accumulation of small illogicalities.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 28, 2003

It's a curious and unsatisfying lark, in which Robert Duvall the actor is rendered speechless by Robert Duvall the writer and sideswiped by Robert Duvall the director.

Full Review | May 1, 2003

While the assassination plot is interesting, the rest of Tango is dramatically flaccid.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Apr 11, 2003

An ode to love and art while simultaneously a reminder of human frailty.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Apr 11, 2003

Moves to an off-kilter rhythm that seems at times to be locked away in the head of its writer/director/star.

Full Review | Apr 11, 2003

The characters and situations here are all stereotypical or undercooked.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 11, 2003

If this sounds like an awkward combination, it is.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 11, 2003

Yes, it's murky, but if you enjoy watching Mr. Duvall dig into a gnarly character, the script's flaws fade in importance.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 10, 2003

The studied pace of Duvall's film, and his carefully measured performance, will win over more patient patrons.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2003

It's an uneven but occasionally fascinating film, as labors of love so often are.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 4, 2003

It's hard to see what Duvall thinks is so interesting about the hit man, aside from the fact that he's playing him.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2003

A great character actor's love letter to the one art form that makes him feel like a star.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 4, 2003

Something of a noirish thriller, although Duvall's script drops the ball big time in this regard.

Full Review | Apr 4, 2003

Generally delivers in none of the areas it penetrates, not as a thriller, not as an encomium to the tango, not as a tribute to a passionate relationship.

| Apr 4, 2003

About one commanding performance, fascinating to watch but not strong enough to redeem the muddled story line on which it hangs.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 4, 2003

Duvall has created it from the inside out, seeing it not through the eyes of the audience but through the mind of Anderson.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2003

A wonderfully crafted, smartly acted study of a complex old coot.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 3, 2003

An exercise in narcissism and nepotism that scoots by, not on story or suspense, but on [Duvall's] Old World charisma.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 3, 2003

It's a film whose pleasures creep up on you.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 3, 2003