DeVito's wicked version of a self-absorbed superstar is worth the price of admission alone.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 19, 2021

The screenplay is brilliant (based on the novel by Elmore Leonard), interweaving fast-paced dialogue with sharp editing and plenty of humor.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 13, 2020

How cool can a mere movie be? A perfect cast and great script, based on a hilariously witty best seller, are key elements. When you add a talented director and let the magic of Hollywood take over, the result is Get Shorty.

| Oct 25, 2019

Like the Elmore Leonard novel it adapts, Get Shorty is fast, very funny, minorly caustic, and about as consequential and lasting as the movies Chili himself tries to green-light.

| Oct 25, 2019

Get Shorty - for all its critical and commercial acclaim - has never received its due as one of the funniest Hollywood films of modern times.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 12, 2019

Get Shorty belongs to a long line of spoofs that still appeal to Hollywood magic in their very design.

| Nov 20, 2018

It's terrifically entertaining.

| Jan 5, 2018

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

A pleasing satire on gangsters, hustlers and Hollywood.

| Original Score: A | Mar 19, 2011

A freewheeling comedy-thriller with the gift of the gab.

| May 7, 2008

Hollywood has been in love with mobsters since the beginning of movies. But the other side of the equation has seldom been considered. That is, until now.

| May 7, 2008

This Hollywood is the one we want to believe exists: no film school snots here, no MBA's, no dock-worker philosophers-turned-screenwriters. Just a town full of second-rate swindlers where a clear-eyed racketeer can keep his eye on the ball and rise.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2008

A drolly offbeat look at Hollywood mores dedicated to the proposition that the best preparation for becoming a film producer is a stint in the criminal underworld.

| May 7, 2008

An entertaining comedy-thriller adapted by Scott Frank from the Elmore Leonard best-seller and directed with bounce (if not much nuance) by Barry Sonnenfeld.

| May 7, 2008

Get Shorty mixes two movie plot chestnuts -- the showbiz comedy and the mob picture -- and comes up with something fresh and unexpected.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 22, 2006

A very cool, very fresh, very slick crime flick.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 14, 2006

Everything clicks.

| Jun 24, 2006

Sonnenfeld keeps all of this under two hours by cutting the movie at a dazzling clip.

| Sep 24, 2005

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 5, 2005

...a mostly watchable yet frustratingly hit-and-miss endeavor...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 20, 2005