I would never recommend this to somebody based on the romance that is supposedly at its center. I’d rave about Nicholson, the extraordinary color palette, and some of the thorny ideas that it tangles with.

| Feb 7, 2023

One of the five best films of the 1980s,

| Mar 9, 2022

all the richer and more meaningful because it is not static history, but rather a grenade of genuine political passion lobbed into an era of increasing conservatism and military build-up-an elegy for an ideal

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 6, 2022

A movie rich in purpose and incident.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 4, 2021

The wait is excruciating, but the final convergence of the leads' periodically disparate paths is emotionally overwhelming - in a good way.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 24, 2021

Given the impeccable production values, first-rate performances and epic proportions, the movie's just not as intriguing or involving as it should have been.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 27, 2020

Here is a three and one-half hour docudrama that is claustrophobically filled with ceaseless political rhetoric and mixed with a limp, unpersuasive love story.

| May 7, 2020

Beatty has come up with a rich, remarkably balanced portrait of a fascinating episode in American radical politics, and the love story that rode its crest like a tiny boat braving a turbulent sea.

| Feb 27, 2020

Reds seems like what we'd now call Oscar bait, with its epic love triangle of powerhouse stars set amid the backdrop of a massive historic moment, but the details keep it far from that.

| Sep 24, 2019

Warren Beatty doesn't manage to take control of his project, taking history through the path of information or melodrama. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 22, 2019

Despite its impeccable credentials, Reds is an overlong, often boring epic that can't decide where to focus the story.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 17, 2018

Beatty gives the performance of his lifetime as the erratic, possessed Reed, and his grasp of the direction of an epic film is truly astonishing.

| Oct 22, 2018

Beatty, who produced, directed, helped to write and starred in this impressive work, may be forgiven for not having the heart to cut it.

| Feb 5, 2018

If no one will learn much about politics from this film, Beatty has nonetheless put the fire of two burning lives in it. There is plenty in it about the risks that commitment entails, but it is about commitment.

| Jan 8, 2018

It is occasionally rambling and repetitious, but nearly always intelligent and engrossing.

| May 9, 2017

Warren Beatty's political epic features superlative performances and speaks to the inner-rebel in each of us.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 15, 2011

Filled with rich ideas.

| Original Score: B | Jan 10, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 14, 2008

Vittorio Storaro, who won an Oscar for his cinematography, keeps the long film moving at a healthy pace, mixing static shots with subtle camera movement, never showing off or detracting from the story.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 5, 2007

an epic love story ... As a teenager I saw it four times in the theater (which I now find pretty astonishing, considering the movie is well more than three hours long -- I had a lot more free time in 1981!)

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 12, 2007