While both Harvey Keitel and John Magaro excel as the Jewish mobster, Lansky is a good film but there was the potential for it to be a great film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 8, 2025

Keitel and Magaro team up to give a captivating portrayal of Meyer Lansky that is firmly rooted in the real account.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Much of the violence features in a series of well-staged if perfunctory flashbacks, but Keitel's menacing portrayal suggests a man still capable of intimidation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 30, 2022

Lansky features a terrific performance from Keitel, making something recognisably human from a complex character who has been played once too often as a cartoon villain

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2022

Keitel has played many tough guys throughout his career, but it is hard to think of a role in which he has been better.

| Mar 4, 2022

American and Israeli governments prove to be the dirtiest mob of the bunch.

| Original Score: B | Feb 12, 2022

A dynamic script... permanently mixes the repudiable gangster past with the calm and almost inactive present. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 5, 2022

A little stroll through American history. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 4, 2021

So Lansky's kind of a mess. But Keitel makes it a mostly endearing one. Corral your expectations.

| Oct 13, 2021

There are no great faults to find with it, except one: fans of the genre have literally seen every element of it before.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 7, 2021

Lanskyis a story worth watching. However, I'd love to see how this narrative would have played out if the filmmaker had been given a lot more money.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Sep 24, 2021

The film's decision to stay with the narrator and not Lansky himself was a deathly bad decision.

| Sep 17, 2021

As a premise Lansky had promise and there is still a great film to be made. Unfortunately, this is not it.

| Jul 25, 2021

Its trite script lacks emotional resonance (though the thread about Israeli politics was interesting). But overall, pretty pokey.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 18, 2021

One wonders what we might've seen had someone made a movie about Lansky in the 1970s, starring Keitel. Now that might've been, as they used to say, a must-see.

| Jul 9, 2021

Please, someone put Keitel in one last film that deserves him. Keitel does infinitely more for "Lansky" than it does for him.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 9, 2021

Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese has mastered the art of making movies about American mobsters. [This movie, which is] about real-life 20th century crime boss Meyer Lansky, is one of numerous cheap and trite imitations of a Scorsese gangster film.

| Jul 8, 2021

Harvey Keitel takes a swing at portraying the "Mob's Accountant" and Keitel is as reliable as he's always been - but while this is a well-filmed and well-acted story, much of the material has been covered in superior movies.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 6, 2021

Harvey Keitel and Sam Worthington are good actors but they are wasted in the present day aspect of the movie.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 6, 2021

Lansky was a fascinatingly conflicted man. Rockaway, his crew, Keitel, and Magaro have crafted an engrossing and indelible movie of his life story.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 2, 2021