The creators approach it with such a gaudily imaginative love of dreck that it’s almost genius.

| Apr 29, 2025

The first half of "Snake Eyes" is catnip for Brian De Palma aficionados until you realize he’s working with one of the flimsiest screenplays he’s ever had, as one of legendary Hollywood screenwriter David Koepp’s rare whiffs breaks the spell.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 16, 2025

There are some stunning set-pieces, but the storyline grows exponentially sillier as the film progresses.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 5, 2025

Brian De Palma has made better films, but few have been as underrated as Snake Eyes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 31, 2023

Snake Eyes is not first-rate De Palma. At best it's a triumph of style over substance. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 20, 2023

De Palma devotes full widescreen close-ups to things that mean nothing, and he gives us teasing, blurry glimpses of crucial events. It’s all play, all movie.

| Original Score: B | Sep 2, 2022

It's immediately impossible to mistake Snake Eyes for anything than a vintage De Palma thriller...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 1, 2020

| Original Score: D | Sep 7, 2011

De Palma continues perfecting his brilliant visual style within the most blatantly artificial plot scenarios.

| Aug 21, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Brian De Palma's exercise in flashy paranoia and shallow cynicism comes out of the gate like gangbusters, but falls apart in a flurry of preposterous plotting.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 18, 2008

Wispy threads of dramatic plausibility and character involvement unravel completely by the time of the incredibly silly final reel.

| Sep 18, 2008

Aside from a sensational, continuous 20-minute opening take, and an amazing shot that literally swoops over the top of a row of hotel rooms, there's little of interest here.

| Sep 18, 2008

Never loses its bearings as it hovers between preposterous paranoia and a Billy-Wilder-like moral fable about a deeply flawed hero who draws a line in the sand beyond which he cannot go.

| Apr 27, 2007

Snake Eyes is about multiple perceptions of one major event, their relationship to each other and to the audience.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 23, 2006

The first 20 minutes of Snake Eyes are among the most imaginative and energetic minutes of film I've seen in a while.

| May 26, 2006

The film echoes the technical wizardry and complex plotting of De Palma's best film, Blow Out.

| Feb 9, 2006

A moderately suspenseful thriller that seems somewhat conventional compared to De Palma's earlier envelope-pushing efforts. Intriguing, but the mystery villain is rather obvious from the start.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 24, 2006

Unfortunately, the material that De Palma chooses to hang his flair on feels like a paltry version of No Way Out as if penned by Crichton or Grisham.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

I give De Palma and company credit for not succumbing to the usual bloat we see in big-budget Hollywood films.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 9, 2005