[Neil] Jordan’s portrait is at once lush and garish, romantic and cynical, and Caine’s shockingly vicious performance as cold-blooded crime boss Mortwell sets the bar for cruelty and avarice.

| Dec 7, 2024

The best romantic gangster movie in years. Bob Hoskins is unforgettable as a sweet thug whose feelings go to his fists.

| Jul 30, 2024

Mona Lisa reeks of noirishness. Worse, it reeks of intellectualized noirishnesss. But the whole movie has some of the potency of cheap music that鈥檚 represented by the title song. I succumbed.

| Sep 13, 2023

George is a brilliant creation 鈥� part hapless clown, part two-bit criminal, he is the beating heart of this gritty little British film.

| Aug 9, 2023

Mona Lisa was ahead of its time, a precursor of urban fairy tales in late 90s British cinema.

| Jun 5, 2023

Finding love in such a dark place is dangerous and manipulative, yet unexpectedly possible for a man like George.

| Feb 28, 2023

It shows the star [Bob Hoskins] in two modes in which he excelled: pugnacious, nostril-flaring anger and kind-eyed tenderness.

| Aug 29, 2022

We can see ourselves in parts of it, and we can enjoy the hidden truths it successfully brings to screen.

| Aug 25, 2022

Mona Lisa is a daring mixture of style and genre.

| Aug 25, 2022

Bob Hoskins delivers the performance of his career in this riveting drama that takes place in a particularly unsavory underworld.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 15, 2021

... if you've got the stomach for a brutal depiction of the darker side of London, Mona Lisa doesn't so much engage you with a smile as rabbit-punches you in the gut...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 15, 2021

Neo-noir British drama has strong language, sex, violence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2021

A charming, pulsating journey that's a mish-mash of crime thriller, drama and romance, laced with just a smidge of humour.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 11, 2018

A dreary but compelling romantic crime thriller about love being the important ingredient in life.

| Original Score: B | Oct 11, 2014

A superb cast lead by Bob Hoskins in the performance of his career.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 6, 2014

The bracing peaks of image, acting, and narrative architecture handily win the day over a scenario that always feels more like a willfully engineered exercise than a fully plausible reality.

| Original Score: B | Jul 6, 2011

The acting of Bob Hoskins in Jordan's disturbing Odd Couple tale is superb.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 17, 2011

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 4, 2010

As a study of social faades as a means of social climbing, and as a character study of Hoskins' would-be angel, Mona Lisa excels... [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 29, 2010

No wonder audiences have taken to this gritty romance as to a mongrel puppy; for at heart Mona Lisa is an old-fashioned poor-soul weepie, and George is less a Cagney rakehell than a Chaplin tramp.

| Apr 20, 2010