This is not a film about tight plotting or slam-bang action, but about style. Pure, hypnotic, mesmerizing style.

| May 30, 2016

It's not very good. Some of it, in fact, is downright awful.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 9, 2015

A square-jawed, furrowed-browed, altogether joyless film, with a hero to match ...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 22, 2015

"The whole thing looks like heightened news footage; raw, visceral and urgent."

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 21, 2015

The global village may be vulnerable to computer geeks and unscrupulous corporations, but it's managed to block the progress of this opportunistic dud. Well done, everybody. Justice has been served.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 20, 2015

What makes Mann such a fascinating but paradoxical film-maker is his grandiose approach toward material that often seems utterly formulaic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2015

The spectacle here is sometimes absorbing but more often ridiculous, and it isn't [Mann's] best work.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 19, 2015

A competent procedural rather than the ground-breaking cybersaga we'd hoped for. But as with Miami Vice, Mann's boundless style does a remarkable job of disguising the lack of substance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2015

Much cybercandy here to chew on.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2015

Hints of a quasi-apocalyptic chill seem arbitrary-neither symbolic nor dramatic. The effect is like watching software run itself.

| Feb 2, 2015

Nobody can top Mann's urban night scenes, with their oily neon and skyscraper light grids, but for the most part this plays like Heat without the heat.

| Jan 23, 2015

Let's start with the fact that Hemsworth stars as the world's most brilliant hacker. Let that sink in for a moment.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 17, 2015

The movie's most depressing feature is its naked pandering for overseas box office. If there's one thing worse than appealing to the lowest common American denominator, it's appealing to the lowest common global denominator.

| Jan 16, 2015

It has a decent ludicrousness and Mann's one-of-a-kind talent for using digital photography and naturalistic light to complicate and invigorate anonymous spaces.

| Jan 16, 2015

Given our brave new cyber world, someone in Hollywood is going to have to come up with a better way to do it. Watching actors tap out code as big buzzing screens of digital data flash on the screen just doesn't cut it.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 16, 2015

[Mann's] closeup work on the characters themselves is shaky, perhaps in the hope that we won't notice they're made of cardboard.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jan 16, 2015

What keeps the mlange compelling is the sense of transience that Mann has been nurturing in his recent work. His fascination with characters who have no nation beyond their own immediate selves reaches a kind of emblematic apotheosis.

| Jan 16, 2015

Another silly cyber-thriller, almost saved by an intense Hemsworth and some bruising action.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 16, 2015

Blackhat is a visual blowout, but it's no Blow Out

| Jan 16, 2015

Mann would rather be coasting the canals or stewing over crime scenes. The definiteness of computers seems to stymie him. For all his digital resources, his existentialism is analog.

| Jan 16, 2015