Underfunded, sketchily written, and heavily cut (maybe one reason the writing seems sketchy), Brian De Palma's Domino still puts contemporary thrillers to shame.

| Jun 7, 2019

It's hard to imagine any critic-myself included-suggesting we're looking at an all-time great finale. But I did laugh out loud while feeling liberated, guilty and disgusted for doing so. DePalma's still got it.

| Jun 5, 2019

Running at just 89 minutes but stilted and gangly enough to feel twice that long, Domino never feels like an actual film.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 5, 2019

In Domino, De Palma's virtuoso gifts are at odds with Petter Skavlan's rudimentary scenario... its current form, it fails to generate the dense, volatile atmosphere needed to bring Skavlan's pulp fiction to life.

| Jun 5, 2019

The creative exhaustion is palpable, a near-total artistic disinterest. You can almost hear the director doing that impatient "get on with it" thing with his hand whenever the actors are emoting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 3, 2019

Even when we can tell what's going on in "Domino," there's a sense of the tail of De Palma's intentions wagging the dog of a plot.

| Jun 3, 2019

It's sad to see a director at the bottom of his game.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 31, 2019

De Palma isn't exactly known for the clarity of his storytelling, but he's never been quite this sloppy when left to his own devices.

| Original Score: C- | May 31, 2019

Plenty of evidence of a patch job is on display here, especially as the film actively yawns its way through a muddled plot about the conflict between Danish police and the CIA over an ISIS mastermind.

| May 30, 2019

"Domino" could've been, if a great artist had been granted access to his full palette.

| May 30, 2019

Moments like the film's early Vertigo riff are intriguing on paper. Unfortunately, the rest of the paper is filled with humdrum plotting and characters so flimsy that it's impossible to care about what happens to them.

| May 30, 2019

De Palma can't realize all the elaborate effects he clearly wanted... But his direction often compensates with B-movie energy, particularly when he's able to concentrate on his perverse vision.

| May 30, 2019

A film so crushingly irrelevant it's almost worth ignoring its very existence.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 30, 2019

As a thriller, Domino is D.O.A. As a game of spot-the-auteurist motifs, however, this exercise in De Palma-reading is practically a gas.

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

This is not a great Brian De Palma film in the end, but its best moments will remind you of just how great he can be.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 29, 2019

A counterterrorism thriller offering just slightly more excitement than the average 온라인카지노추천 police procedural.

| May 27, 2019

The film goes through its motions too quickly for its imagery to convey the irrepressible force of provocation.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 27, 2019

The political intrigue is stale and stereotyped, the characters might as well be windup toys, and the gore is repulsive and gratuitous.

| May 27, 2019