London Boulevard is a mess, a fascinating, exhilarating, infuriating, emotional, tragic and euphoric mess, but still a mess all the same.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 27, 2012

A stylish if familiar tale of a man hopelessly entangled in his past.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 2011

It doesn't really hang together, not really. But when a picture is this sleek and pleasurable, why complain?

| Nov 11, 2011

In trying to take a bite out of crime and another out of fame, [Monahan has] ended up with more than he can chew for his first time in the director's chair.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 11, 2011

Monahan's trademark tart dialogue is as strong as ever, and Farrell and Winstone make for a formidable pair of opponents.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 11, 2011

There is too much to be absorbed in too little time and not enough tissue connecting abbreviated, sometimes unnecessary subplots.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 10, 2011

The confidence of London Boulevard never tips into cockiness. This is style with some intelligence behind it.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 10, 2011

Had the film stood still more often, its stylish gambit would have worked better.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 10, 2011

A great cast and an intriguing premise are crowded out by a surplus of plot threads that don't have space to play out, and accordingly come across as clichs.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 10, 2011

Close this street down.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 8, 2011

Monahan's debut has verve and charisma, but, in the end, the tension of a late-night pub shrug.

| Nov 8, 2011

Equally indebted to Martin Scorsese, Guy Ritchie, and Giorgio Armani, London Boulevard represents the apotheosis of style over substance.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 7, 2011

London Boulevard is a curio at best.

Full Review | Feb 10, 2011

London Boulevard is like a fancy, retro-styled pocket watch that someone accidentally broke and tried to reassemble with only a vague idea of clockwork.

| Nov 30, 2010

Hard-boiled crime yarn with Irish wit, colorful characters and considerable style.

| Nov 30, 2010

It's a crying shame how disjointed it gets, crumpled into a narrow range of Brit-gangster idioms, picking quite the wrong ending, and barely holding it together from scene to scene.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 29, 2010

Guilty, with one or two mitigating circumstances.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 29, 2010

It's a film with plenty of front, as they say, but uses up all its energy, wit and ideas in the first 20 or so minutes, before collapsing into a flurry of boring violence.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 29, 2010

This disastrous gangster film wastes an excellent British cast.

| Nov 29, 2010

As a pastiche of so many previous gangster movies, it's lazily enjoyable. But it doesn't repay any thought.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 29, 2010