A gorgeously vitriolic crime flick with a personality all its own.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 30, 2024

Remember the Gandhi of Ben Kingsley? Wait until you seem him here as Don Logan, a psychotic gangster, the British equivalent of Pesci in GoodFellas. Kingsley's work is more bizarrely eccentric. And more accomplished.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 30, 2024

…doesn’t have much to do with sex or beasts, despite the giant machine-gun-toting Donnie Darko rabbit that haunts Gal’s dreams, but in terms of British art-house gangster movies, Jonathan Glazer’s uncouth film remains the 200-pound-gorilla in the room…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2024

Ben Kingsley proves he’s one of the best actors of our time.

| Nov 28, 2023

... a fierce yet refreshingly understated entry to the resurgence of British gangster films that began in the late 1990s.

| Oct 27, 2023

Directed with cool assurance, full of unforgettable set-pieces... and even further distinguished by some surreal touches that really get under the skin.

| Original Score: 8.4 | Aug 4, 2023

Glazer’s debut is more style than substance, as most debut-noirs are.

| Oct 5, 2022

There's something appealing about the films sometimes clumsy energy, where a stylistic flourish doesn't require an advanced intellectual metaphor because there's feeling behind it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

Very much like its antihero, this is a movie that occasionally gets caught between two worlds. But it does so with such swagger that it's hard to begrudge its wicked ways.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2021

A crime film like no other, Sexy Beast is composed of moments of startling audacity, visual and dramatic, that arrive in waves, just long enough for you to catch your breath before the next.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 3, 2021

The movie needs to be seen for its clean compositions, for its sure touch of fantasy, and, above all, for the forbidding presence of Kingsley-the prince of darkness, lightly disguised as a human being.

| Sep 14, 2020

[Jonathan] Glazer's brilliant reimagining of the crime drama is character and performance driven, with a capital C and P.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 18, 2020

...a visceral, mostly captivating thriller that features one of modern cinema's very best villains.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 17, 2020

A stylish, innovative and utterly compelling British crime drama which has stood the test of time very well indeed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 16, 2020

An extended short film par excellence, and we're permitted to luxuriate in Glazer's skills.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 16, 2018

It's this formal vigor that elevates Sexy Beast well above its generic crime-picture roots.

| Dec 13, 2013

Stands head and shoulders above the late 90s flurry of British gangster movies. Stylish and confident and built upon a fearsome performance from Ben Kinglsey.

| Sep 19, 2011

It's not just the ironic kick of watching the guy who played Gandhi get his rocks off on sociopathic violence. Ben Kingsley's Don Logan is one of cinema's all-time fearsome, loathsome villains - stalking even the frames from which he's absent.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 24, 2010

When you get the chance, give this one a look.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 29, 2009

Winstone e (especialmente) Kingsley carregam o filme com suas atuações magnéticas, enquanto Glazer confere charme à narrativa com sua abordagem bem-humorada. Infelizmente, o terceiro ato não sobrevive à ausência do personagem mais interessante do projeto.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2008