The first half of Blow is a shallow but lively fun ride; the audience gets a contact high. But when George's fortunes start to go from bad to worse, so does the movie.

| Mar 6, 2018

This is one of the few drug movies where you actually feel a little sorry for the drug-dealing coke-infested lead character.

| Original Score: A | Sep 12, 2017

The filmmakers are torn between presenting George's life story as a cautionary tale, or as a blast.

| Sep 26, 2002

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 19, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2001

Depp, an actor of terrific intelligence, insight and range, easily transforms himself from peppy youngster to sad, shambling failure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2001

We've just been to this party before and we know how it ends, again and again and again.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 9, 2001

Blow can't sustain the high.

Full Review | Apr 6, 2001

An extraordinary -- and unfathomable -- piece of whitewashing.

Full Review | Apr 6, 2001

Blow fades a bit in its second half, weighed down by a need to closely follow Jung's life. But even then, the actors are so compelling that it's just a mild discomfort.

Full Review | Apr 6, 2001

A mediocre biopic.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 6, 2001

Grabs hold of you by the lapels and simply won't let go.

Full Review | Apr 6, 2001

Depp aside, the acting is almost uniformly atrocious -- although it's hard to make hay out of this dialogue.

| Apr 6, 2001

Neither a tragedy nor a morality play, but rather a jaunty, candy-colored romp through a quarter century or so of American pop music, pop fashion and popular illegal substances.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 6, 2001

It's one of the few major releases so far this year that is worth a grown-up's time.

| Apr 6, 2001

Tthe movie is higher on style than it is on substance, but one of its strong suits is that it never stoops so low as to lecture us. It throttles by with irresponsible abandon.

| Apr 6, 2001

In its way, this sometimes hilarious, sometimes deeply moving film has more to say about the influence of drugs on American society than the self-important Traffic.

Full Review | Apr 6, 2001

Very little about this druggy drama works as intended.

Full Review | Apr 6, 2001

There's a been there, done that quality to this picture for anyone who saw the far nervier, more flamboyant Scarface -- not to mention the far grittier, urgent Traffic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 6, 2001

Ambitious but repetitive.

Full Review | Apr 6, 2001