…Dom Hemingway is a fascinating, vital character, and Shepard’s film gives him plenty of opportunity to vent his spleen through a memorably full-on performance from Law…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 30, 2023

What separates the eponymous antihero of Richard Shepard's British crime comedy from his contemporaries is his humanity. He knows when he's done right and he knows when he's done wrong, even though he can't help himself from doing more wrong than right.

| Jan 22, 2022

Law is better than the movie in a role that could come to redefine his career.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2021

While it features perhaps one of the best performances of Jude Law's career, its raunchy energy fizzles out by the mid-point as it switches gears from uneasy gangster flick to family dramedy.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 29, 2019

It's almost Deadwood-level macho brilliance, lyrical and delivered with a generous helping of spit.

| Aug 28, 2018

While Jude Law summons all his energy to pronounce his many curse words with verve and feeling, no amount of f-bombs can launch him above a plot that was simply boring, and pacing that was awkward and excruciating.

| Aug 22, 2018

Like the title character, you aren't likely to forget it - and find yourself rooting for it against your better judgment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 7, 2018

I figured that at some point Dom Hemingway-like Dom Hemingway-would have to choose what it wants to be.

| Aug 7, 2018

An angry and noisy romp that left this reviewer feeling cold.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 14, 2016

Always feels fake.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 27, 2016

The results are so delightful you can't help hoping Law lets his hairline recede and gym membership expire.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 10, 2014

Dom Hemingway lives or dies by the audience's identification with its protagonist.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 15, 2014

Jude Law gives a bravura performance as the title character, but you can't escape the feeling that this 2013 crime comedy-drama could have been either funnier or more dramatic.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 28, 2014

In his attempt to build a story around a two-dimensional character, writer/director Richard Shepard has ended up with a meandering mess of clichs that was in desperate need of some originality.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 28, 2014

Law tears into his role like he's like one of Shakespeare's most scabrous lost characters somehow unleashed in the modern world, and he clearly relishes the grit and the gristle.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2014

When the movie takes a break from its tone of merry obnoxiousness to strain for poignancy, it settles too easily into sentimentality.

| Original Score: 83/100 | May 26, 2014

He's not the kind of guy you'd want to date your daughter. Neither, for most, is he the kind of guy you'd want to spend 90 minutes with in a movie theater.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 14, 2014

Jude Law is great, sure, but Dom Hemingway remains a character in search of a story, uttering sentences in search of a script.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 5, 2014

I unreservedly love Richard Shepard's Dom Hemingway, and I strongly urge everyone with a taste for quirky, dark crime comedy of the British variety to beat a path to it.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 2, 2014

I've always been on the fence about Law. For every Gattaca or Closer, there are a handful of The Holidays and Cold Mountains to contend with. But if Dom isn't his best performance, it's certainly his funniest.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 30, 2014