A timely treatise that shines a harsh light on this nation’s deplorables and serves to remind discerning viewers that homegrown terrorism is no less a threat than the international brand.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 18, 2025

The film fails to engage because of its miscast leading man and its unsuccessful attempts to elevate itself above a standard undercover cop yarn.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 11, 2022

Imperium feels like a vehicle for Radcliffes range, an uncomfortable and competent drama thats most memorable for showing a very different side to its star.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 18, 2022

Instead of exploring the psychopathology of hatred and anti-Semitism in the United States it is content to play as a thriller and little else.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2021

Imperium provides Radcliffe an unexpectedly alluring lead performance while also making an effort to provide audiences with the basic machinations behind Fascism.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2020

A film that starts as conventional, but quickly moves into something much more dark and engaging.

| Jul 26, 2019

Aside from Daniel Radcliffe's superb central performance, Imperium's strong core comes from director Daniel Ragussis' depiction of malign normalcy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2019

This is the kind of movie that uses the tagline "inspired by real events" to its best advantage, and using it to craft a compelling narrative that eschews bright shiny things and dares to take us on a journey into the worst impulses of the human heart.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 28, 2019

A rather generic undercover thriller, Imperium still works with an engaging story set within an ugly subculture in American life that has become resurgent in recent years.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 1, 2018

Imperium mostly stays its course. As an exploration of hate in America, it is both wide-ranging and scarily believable, and as a depiction of grungy, ground-level undercover endeavors, it generally feels like the real deal.

| Original Score: B | Oct 23, 2018

Ragussis delivers a solid little thriller worthy of the cast who agreed to participate in it.

| Original Score: 3.2/5 | Aug 28, 2018

There is less and less doubt that Daniel Radcliffe is confirming himself as a weighty actor. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 29, 2017

I'm a great admirer of Daniel Radcliffe's valiant attempts to put Harry Potter behind him, but he is disastrously miscast in Imperium.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2017

'Imperium' is a film that, if not for Daniel Radcliffe, would have quickly been forgotten and beyond that, there's nothing worth mentioning. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 27, 2017

The film shows how a dirty bomb attempt always has its origin in a speech of a charismatic leader who lives in an unpolluted house and has an absolutely integrated life, and that's where it has its strength. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 22, 2017

A timely and credible story that wins as a thriller of suspense in the abundant moments in which the protagonist is about to get caught. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2017

A well directed film when it comes to raising tension, and a couple of performances capable of overcoming the reiterations of the script. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 8, 2017

Imperium isn't as probing or as gripping as some other films tackling neo-Nazi violence - such as American History X ... But Radcliffe convinces us that when his hero gets into a jam he really is thinking on his feet to get out of it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2017

[Daniel Radcliffe] shows just how effectively he can harden up for a tough role... the film is pretty brutal about FBI procedure and is super-topical given the ever-present threat of home-grown terrorism.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 27, 2017

... if we're never on the edge of our seats, it delivers a portrait of a movement that sucks up the angry, disappointed whites who see their failures as a conspiracy of disenfranchisement...

| Nov 18, 2016