It doesn't completely work and lacks complexity, but Capone is scene-for-scene more interesting than many slicker films. Hardy's swing-for-the-fences performance is a must-see.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2021

Dropping its leash on a star who needs one, the film mistakes decrepitude for drama, and the closest it gets to mid-scene narrative suspense is wondering whether Al Capone has just let himself go with a number one or two.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 26, 2020

...that is what I like about it. It's a movie about a dying man trying not to die and looking back over his life with regret...

| Jul 28, 2020

[W]atching the star wheel around the estate wielding a solid-gold tommy gun while dressed in adult diapers is to witness a craziness that feels uniquely American and perhaps even more geographically precise than that.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 19, 2020

It's a trip you'd rather forget.

| Original Score: C- | May 18, 2020

A baffling misfire. This is just terrible, but exquisitely so and must be seen.

| May 15, 2020

The ghastly contrasts are built into the well-conceived story, but Trank neither trusts it nor rises to the demands of his phantasmagorical ambitions.

| May 15, 2020

Mr. Hardy does have a few sensationally lurid moments, but the stuff of high drama isn't there... What a waste, and what a downer for Mr. Trank.

| May 14, 2020

Al Capone's last year could make for an interesting film, but there is little poetry or transcendence in "Capone," and nothing even remotely close to the quietly devastating third act of "The Irishman."

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 14, 2020

At times weirdly engaging but often so bizarrely muddled that you might identify a little too closely with its perpetually unglued protagonist. But Hardy is always worth watching.

| May 14, 2020

For those of you who thought Al Pacino yukked it up too much as Jimmy Hoffa in "The Irishman," get ready for this ham dinner.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 13, 2020

If it's not dazzling its audience with over-the-top madness, the film looks as wormed-over as the decomposing lump of man at its centre.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 13, 2020

Hardy's outsized performance could easily have fit into a biopic of a hale, healthy, and active Capone. Instead, Trank matches that vigor with inventiveness, finding an unusual new way of addressing an iconic figure.

| May 13, 2020

None of it really worked for me.

| Original Score: C- | May 13, 2020

...admittedly a sluggish film devoid of much tension.

| May 12, 2020

A psychodrama of decay and death, it knocks the legendary icon down off his regal pedestal-albeit in an epically mad, magnificent manner that's also fit for a king.

| May 12, 2020

Watching this frequently grotesque and narratively meandering movie is a somewhat nightmarish experience, and thereby it successfully evokes Capone's tortured existence.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 12, 2020

The only thing that makes the monotony tolerable is Hardy's go-for-broke performance, which isn't effective, but is mesmerizing.

| May 12, 2020

It's hard not to appreciate the old-school craft involved here, as well as the impulse to build a feature-length film around a historical personage in an intimate and realistic situation.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 12, 2020

Who knew that Capone - or "Capone" - could be reduced to this?

| May 12, 2020