It’s hard to think of anyone better suited to playing a murderer with rage issues than the formidable-looking Michael Shannon.

| Sep 30, 2022

Yes, Michael Shannon is great in The Iceman. Yet the fact remains that you can watch him be great in a whole lot of much better movies.

| Mar 4, 2021

In a vacuum, this is some of Shannon's finest work. It's unfortunate the film isn't as good as he is.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 27, 2020

Who cares if the story makes sense, because Michael Shannon can carry it, right? He can, but only so far.

| Feb 13, 2020

The Iceman -- so slick, so smooth, it will send a chill through your veins.

| Nov 27, 2019

The Iceman is undeniably Shannon's film, and his performance is at once both powerful and nuanced.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2019

Vromen's The Iceman will leave audiences cold with its chilling account...a delightfully probing and perverse exposition about a complex character study of an unstable man set loose among the masses thus becoming our wildest harsh reality imaginable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 17, 2018

There's no denying The Iceman features an eye-catching performance from Michael Shannon... or that director Ariel Vromen imparts a confident style, but we have seen this true-life sort of thing many times before.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2017

Once again, Michael Shannon proves he's one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood with a performance so spellbinding you won't be able to take your eyes off him.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2017

It's a plum role for any actor and [Michael] Shannon's performance is Oscar-worthy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2017

A low-rent movie with an expensive cast.

| May 5, 2015

Lack of originality and insipid screenwriting may soon be read as the autopsy of this actively tiresome genre.

| Original Score: C | Feb 1, 2014

It's as though they were in a rush to get so much killing in that they forgot all of the important elements that would make us care. As a consequence, a fascinating story and character have been flattened and turned into a hurried mess.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 2, 2013

'Big bad' with a side dish of bats--t crazy is the specialty of Michael Shannon, and so scarily good he is in mining this wheelhouse that one does not dare to complain about him repeating himself.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 28, 2013

An exploitation film trapped in the stifling body of a respectable crime drama.

| Jul 12, 2013

The killings quickly begin to bleed into one another and it's sometimes hard to sort out the identities and roles of everyone involved.

| Jun 16, 2013

Ariel Vromen doesn't do so much in terms of the story (which spans 20 years, with corresponding hair fluctuations), but he seems to know his violence, and he's a true artiste when it comes to the queasy polyester ambience that holds this thing together.

| Jun 14, 2013

The film is able to capture its period setting, but the script is a collection of generic Mafia dialogue and cliched violent shootouts.

| Jun 12, 2013

The Iceman is dark and gritty but there's not enough excitement or tension to really pull you in.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2013

Shannon's mesmerising performance has a Frankenstein edge to it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2013