The ordinary business of motivation is of far less importance than the general atmosphere of cartoony retribution and doom. It’s a potent slice of goth fantasy anarchy.

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

The film is haunted by a reworked script that may be weighed down by Lee's memory, making it a bit of a morality play and a little faux sentimental.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 26, 2022

Alex Proyas's pulp revenge fantasy, based on a comic-book saga by James O'Barr, is dark, moody, and seductively overwrought; it's an amazingly pure expression of morbid adolescent romanticism.

| Apr 10, 2013

It's a pleasure to welcome The Crow -- a bird of a very different feather.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 10, 2013

As exploitation pictures go, I've seen a whole lot worse.

| Apr 10, 2013

The Crow, starring the late Brandon Lee, is like one long fright night. Even though it was photographed in color, the edge-of-darkness atmosphere descends on the audience like a shroud.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 10, 2013

What's scary about The Crow is the story and the style itself: American Gothic, Poe-haunted nightmare, translated to the age of cyberpunk science fiction, revenge movies and outlaw rock 'n' roll, all set in a hideously decaying, crime-ridden urban hell.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 10, 2013

Style over content, sure, but what style...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2010

If The Crow is forgettable entertainment, it can stand as an eerie epitaph for an actor who looked like he was on the way to better things.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 7, 2010

It succeeds in bringing O'Barr's comic-book vision to life, but there's little else going on behind the graphic razzle-dazzle and the moody, ominous soundtrack.

| May 12, 2008

A seamless, pulsating, dazzlingly visual revenge fantasy that stands as one of the most effective live-actioners ever derived from a comic strip.

Full Review | Apr 16, 2007

Visually, it's a treat; characterisation is sharp, particularly the nicely defined villains; and the action scenes, though soft-pedalled, still pack a satisfying crunch.

| Jun 24, 2006

It is a dark, lurid revenge fantasy and not the breakthrough, star-making movie some people have claimed. But it is a genre film of a high order, stylish and smooth.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2003

Lee is sensational on all counts in a final performance that brims over with athleticism and ardor.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 12, 2001

Bursting with startling images, eclectic staging, and gorgeous neo-gothic set design...it looks and feels truer to its roots than any dozen Batmans or Dick Tracys.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

If he had to die so soon, this movie is the best and most appropriate sendoff Lee could have hoped for.

| Jan 1, 2000

It is a stunning work of visual style - the best version of a comic book universe I've seen - and Brandon Lee clearly demonstrates in it that he might have become an action star, had he lived.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000