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

The talented Glazer keeps things crisp, clean and purposeful. The only flab on this film is around the waist of its sybaritic hero, a working-class crook who has finally gotten a taste of the good life, and doesn't want to lose it.

| Mar 31, 2008

From the off it's clear at once that Jonathan Glazer will be a ballsy, switched-on film-maker.

| Jun 24, 2006

Like Lee Marvin from Point Blank or Michael Caine in (the original) Get Carter, he's a force of nature; a hurricane-like dervish once unleashed cannot be contained.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 19, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 30, 2001

Aside from [Glazer's] visual flair and gallows humor, he's still subtracted much more than he's added.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 17, 2001

A marvelously suspenseful character study wrapped up in a refreshingly tight crime film.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2001

Like an unwelcome guest from way back when, it smarts, and shocks, and just for a moment blows your mind.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 2, 2001

One of the more interesting efforts in its genre, though it has been somewhat overrated.

| Jun 29, 2001

The most original and entertaining crime thriller since The Limey.

| Jun 29, 2001

A stylish, assured battle of wills, and a masterpiece of reverse casting.

Full Review | Jun 28, 2001

As the mobster Don Logan in Sexy Beast, Ben Kingsley is so intensely frightening that it's as if the actor were on a personal mission to deep-six Gandhi and his loincloth once and for all.

Full Review | Jun 25, 2001

I'm wondering what's so special about a film that has but one guilty pleasure and that's Ben Kingsley spraying saliva-lubricated variants of the F-word.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jun 22, 2001

Riotously entertaining, and with a big heart, too.

Full Review | Jun 22, 2001

Glazer directs from Louis Mellis and David Scinto's script like a man who knows the outer limits of a bad dream.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 22, 2001

Quirky details of character, implied but unstated background and lovely performances keep us enthralled.

Full Review | Jun 22, 2001

It remains first and foremost an involving story about its characters.

| Jun 22, 2001

I didn't know Kingsley had such notes inside him. Obviously, he can play anyone.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 22, 2001

Its mix of surrealism, coolly chic visuals, and juicy acting leapfrogs it ahead of most of the competition.

Full Review | Jun 22, 2001