There is some strong work here, but too many misfires.

Full Review | Apr 23, 2007

The story of Fernandez and Beck may be grotesque comedy, but Todd Robinson tells it straight, without flinching from its piteousness, horror, or banality.

Full Review | Apr 16, 2007

Where's James Ellroy when you need him?

| Original Score: 2/6 | Apr 14, 2007

When Hayek and Leto are onscreen, you do not look away.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 13, 2007

A rather plodding movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 13, 2007

Oddly sterile.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 13, 2007

The picture belongs to Salma Hayek.

| Apr 13, 2007

A beautifully photographed remake of 1970 cult B-movie The Honeymoon Killers succeeds better than many in balancing the philosophical with the visceral, although its villains' dirty deeds still trump its deeper strain of melancholy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 13, 2007

While not much of a detective story, [director] Robinson's period film does provide a captivating look at the dynamics that turn Fernandez and Beck into serial killers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2007

Travolta gives a hangdog performance as the world-weary cop obsessed with rooting out the killers. Hayek and Leto share a few tart black comic moments as the film spirals into a bloodbath.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 12, 2007

Strongly focused when it comes to atmosphere. But it strains too hard to contain its disparate plot elements.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 12, 2007

Slipped into release with ominous lack of fanfare, this star-studded noir thriller is a halfhearted attempt to recast The Honeymoon Killers and Deep Crimson.

Full Review | Apr 12, 2007

Leto and Hayek make their erotic psychohistrionics fun, and John Travolta and James Gandolfini, as cops, work up a dour camaraderie.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 11, 2007

The film goes into such repulsive detail that it ends as a tract against capital punishment.

| Apr 4, 2007

One more dip into the tin-eared neo-noir well.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 2, 2007

A riveting thriller that contrasts the sleazy elegance of Hayek and Jared Leto's lethal duo with the lumbering, beefy persistence of cops John Travolta and James Gandolfini.

| May 6, 2006

Concentrating as much on the detectives investigating the case as on the killers, Lonely Hearts fails to show off its impressive cast at their best.

Full Review | May 2, 2006