A crime romp with a lightness of touch that feels increasingly rare.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2024

Based on a profile of Johnson in Texas Monthly magazine, by Skip Hollandsworth, this old-fashioned sexy caper makes merry with unreliable narration, slapstick and the stress of remembering which lie you told.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 13, 2024

...three different movies but never feels disconnected or disjointed. It transforms into character as effortlessly and entertainingly as Powell does.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 15, 2024

Linklater's curiosity is endearing—and enduring—but what makes him a major director is that he's less interested in easy answers than hard truths.

| Jun 15, 2024

The talk in Hit Man, which conveys the twisted fury of desire, makes this film a far more satisfying and substantial love story...

| Jun 15, 2024

Had I not known it was based on an actual person, I would've thought "This is ridiculous, none of this happened, you're just making stuff up"... Yet it's loosely based on a true -- yet pointless -- story.

| Jun 14, 2024

It's a sexy, twisty thriller and it's got some neat ideas about identity.

| Jun 13, 2024

“Hit Man” reveals itself in classic Linklater fashion. Below the shiny and accessible surface lies something more expansive, waiting for anyone that might be open to it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 13, 2024

It’s a delightful film, nearly perfect on its own terms, and it’s an important one, too—it made me a Glen Powell believer.

| Jun 11, 2024

“Hit Man” makes for an undeniable good time. Sometimes all you really need is a couple of impossibly attractive people enjoying each other’s company, captured by a filmmaker who knows when to stay out of their way.

| Jun 8, 2024

For all its gritty genre elements, Hit Man is at heart a cozy hangout movie, a minor but thoroughly enjoyable entry in the Linklater canon.

| Jun 8, 2024

Hit Man is a fun romp set on making Glen Powell a star.

| Jun 7, 2024

There’s a refreshing unpredictability to Hit Man. Like its main character, the movie keeps twisting itself into surprising new forms.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 7, 2024

Breezy and slight, Hit Man provides a somewhat unlikely showcase for Glen Powell, teaming up with acclaimed director Richard Linklater to take an intriguing true story before embellishing it, Hollywood-style, beyond recognition.

| Jun 7, 2024

A satisfying and hot rom-com.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2024

“Hit Man” offers pleasure on numerous fronts: the playful chemistry between Powell and Arjona; the funny camaraderie between Gary and the cops; the screenplay’s elegantly twisty triangles.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2024

A slick, sexy comedy-noir that will actually get at-home viewers to engage with media outside of the dreaded algorithm.

| Original Score: B | Jun 6, 2024

Powell’s performance is outstanding. He plays against his own newly popularized persona as Hollywood’s latest cardboard-cutout hunk du jour, gamely modulating his voice, the tilt of his head, the glare in his eyes ever slightly.

| Jun 6, 2024

Powell and Arjona are incendiary together, but “Hit Man” relies equally on the super-smart screenplay, the rich characterizations and the fleet direction by Linklater.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2024

With Linklater giving the audience such a good time, the risks that Gary is taking sneak up on the audience, as does the philosophical introspection about the nature of self. It’s the same with Powell, who has transformed himself into a leading man.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 6, 2024