Its anguish is so exacerbated that it renders itself untrue. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 20, 2023

...a slow-moving endeavor that never quite becomes the searing, engrossing drama one might’ve anticipated...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 7, 2022

Unfortunately, the transitions are sometimes abrupt and unconvincing, despite Mantegna's intensity.

| Dec 13, 2017

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 13, 2017

David Mamet's "Homicide" is a brilliant muddle: compelling, exhilarating and, at the same time, profoundly dubious.

| Dec 13, 2017

The movie cannot learn from its mistakes; they are forever displayed within it.

| Dec 13, 2017

One of Mamet's strangest and most compelling films

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 13, 2017

In Homicide's electric pop of language, Mamet provides a grand kind of stage for the ugly catalyst of jealousy and racial hatred that curdles in just about every character's mind.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 13, 2017

It's intelligent and the interest in the story carries over into the anticipation of the audience. Only the anti-climatic ending is a little weaker than one would have liked or desired and not up to the challenge as are most endings of Mamet films.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 13, 2017

The movie crackles with energy and life, and with throwaway slang dialogue by Mamet, who takes realistic speech patterns and simplifies them into a kind of hammer-and-nail poetry.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 13, 2017

But, there's also little doubt in my mind that "Homicide" is pure Mamet in its uncut form, and that's a pretty great thing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 13, 2017

Perhaps it could be argued that Mamet's plays are notable for their realism, certainly Mamet's films are distinguished by their theatricality.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 13, 2017

The experience of spending time with the 'Homicide' team is so pleasurable that it's disappointing to be reminded of the stringent requirements of "plot" and "resolution."

Full Review | Original Score: 83/100 | Dec 13, 2017

Another ethical exploration by David Mamet, this time looking at the meaning of integrity.

| Dec 13, 2017

Has a hypnotic quality that kept me riveted.

| Original Score: B | Dec 13, 2017

The police plot is only a tool for the protagonist to embark on an agonizing journey of self-discovery, leading to an outcome that, like so many others in Mamet's work, is a source of irony. [Full Review in Portuguese]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 13, 2017

Nobody does it like Mamet. A terrific cop movie.

Full Review | Dec 13, 2017

The Pulitzer-winning playwright's movies are often a few steps ahead of their audiences, but Homicide seems to have intuitively anticipated its now-exemplary status.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 13, 2017

I still like the movie for the way it immerses itself in each moment, and for the intense way it moves and sounds.

| Dec 13, 2017

As Mamet writes, so he directs -- his shots get to the point, usually one we don't forget.

| Dec 13, 2017