| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

It's a handsomely ugly affair, well dressed enough to make a few friends, but tough enough to make just as many enemies.

| Dec 2, 2002

Director Paul McGuigan and cast infuse the proceedings with a strong dose of psychotic gusto and visual flare.

| Original Score: B | Sep 12, 2002

Doesn't offer much besides glib soullessness, raunchy language and a series of brutal set pieces ... that raise the bar on stylized screen violence.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 26, 2002

Clever, brutal and strangely soulful movie.

| Jul 19, 2002

The film has a kind of hard, cold effect.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 19, 2002

Gangster No. 1 is solid, satisfying fare for adults.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 11, 2002

They crush each other under cars, throw each other out windows, electrocute and dismember their victims in full consciousness. And we don't avert our eyes for a moment.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 14, 2002

The film rehashes several old themes and is capped with pointless extremes -- it's insanely violent and very graphic.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 14, 2002

It's more than a rip-off of Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but less than the Pulp Fiction-esque genre-bender it aspires to be.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 14, 2002

Certainly the performances are worthwhile.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 13, 2002

Seeks to transcend its genre with a curiously stylized, quasi-Shakespearean portrait of pure misogynist evil.

| Jun 13, 2002

A canny, derivative, wildly gruesome portrait of a London sociopath who's the scariest of sadists.

| Original Score: B | Jun 13, 2002

As happily glib and vicious as its characters.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2002

Just watch Bettany strut his stuff. You'll know a star when you see one.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 5, 2002

A movie that hovers somewhere between an acute character study and a trite power struggle.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 27, 2001

Dazzles with its fully-written characters, its determined stylishness (which always relates to characters and story) and Johnny Dankworth's best soundtrack in years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 30, 2001