This depiction of the Rat Pack, in their misogynistic, racist, mob-friendly fullness, feels rounded and human in a way that some of the most dewy-eyed remembrances of Sinatra, at the time of his death, were not.

| Mar 8, 2021

It's a diffused, pointless, tabloid drama rendered, for the most part, in stilted, waxworks fashion.

Full Review | Apr 29, 2020

Watching it is like having a hangover without the fun of getting happily plastered in the first place.

| Apr 29, 2020

They researched the facts and worked on the characterizations, but the makers of "The Rat Pack" ultimately lose their way.

| Apr 29, 2020

What's surprising is the way the deftly handled drama exposes the darkness without destroying the glamour.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 29, 2020

The story is familiar; the actors fail to generate electricity, and the script contains some real embarrassments.

| Apr 29, 2020

Despite some high moments, it desperately lacks the charismatic charge that would have explained it all. Viewers can fill in the gaps in this pedestrian movie, but they really shouldn't have to.

| Apr 29, 2020

Kario Salem's screenplay and Rob Cohen's direction seem aimed at the so-called Martini Nation, twentysomethings whose grasp of cool style and slick surface is a lot stronger than that of history.

| Apr 29, 2020

In its re-creation of a time and spirit that our pop culture has so eagerly enshrined in instant legend, this clear-eyed, unsentimental movie is a small marvel of honesty and craft.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 29, 2020

If Rob Cohen directs The Rat Pack like a self-important music video, and Savion Glover choreographs it to satirize Las Vegas, Salem is always a cynical presence, at the end of the bar, seeing this sentimentality for the sleaze it is.

| Feb 1, 2018

Director Rob Cohen attempts to bring extra layers to each scene but he winds up handcuffed by the script, particularly in the Sinatra scenes.

| Mar 26, 2009

[Rob] Cohen's film shows both the genuine camaraderie behind the cool and the explosive tensions sometimes underlying both, in the process doing a fine job getting under the surface of its subjects.

| May 29, 2001