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

| 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

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

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 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

Homicide is nothing if not a clever package.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011