Brian De Palma and David Mamet's genre masterpiece is an opera of sentiment and sadism, the story of a good man who adopts the brutish tactics of his enemy but somehow remains untouched.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 16, 2023

It is an impeccably acted film with some strong cinematography and a fine score from Ennio Morricone. It successfully updates its 50s source material and still feels timely over 30 years removed from its release

| Aug 8, 2023

The Untouchables still holds up incredibly well after more than thirty years. Production-wise, not only do the sets and costumes seamlessly resemble the Prohibition Era, but Brian DePalma’s technically impressive blocking and framing are a joy to watch.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 24, 2023

It more than delivered when I finally saw it during the summer of 1987. It was nice to see that it still holds up after all these years.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

A gorgeously-mounted, well-acted, and all-around fantastic motion picture, featuring all-time greats of the form on both sides of the camera- it's just a shame that almost nothing in it is true (35th anniversary)

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 16, 2022

I’d argue that De Palma’s Untouchables more than cements its status as a crime/action classic based almost solely on its iconic style alone.

| Jun 5, 2022

“The Untouchables” is heavy on the fiction, but thanks in large part to those great Chicago locales, it feels palpable and real.

| Jun 1, 2022

Even though David Mamet's script takes a few too many historical liberties for my tastes, The Untouchables reinvents the genre.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 31, 2022

Though the film doesn’t explore this as much as might satisfy those interested in the moral quandary at the heart of the film, there’s no denying its place in cinema history.

| May 31, 2022

To paraphrase William Butler Yeats, the moral, psychological, and emotional center of The Untouchables, like that of all of De Palma’s movies and like that of Reagan’s administration, simply cannot hold.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 9, 2022

The characters become moral forces rather than human beings, and the story has the tinny resonance of a cheap western. It's fabulously entertaining for what it is, but its lack of ambition leaves you a little depressed.

| Apr 21, 2022

The Untouchables is an entertaining cop vs. mob, action drama, that includes good performances, but it's too melodramatic. Full review in Spanish

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 29, 2022

Although Brian De Palma took The Untouchables as a studio job to service his smaller, more involved passion projects, the outcome feels personal and uniquely carved from the director's point-of-view.

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

"The Untouchables" felt untouchable in '87; cutting edge, one of those movies you saw multiple times and not just because there wasn't yet the deluge of Hollywood entertainment "product" as there is in 2020. Make that 2019. You know why.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 12, 2020

The script by David Mamet is serious, funny, dramatic, and action-packed at all the right times.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 8, 2020

It's a beautifully controlled film, as well as an intensely exciting and enjoyable one. Although De Niro and Connery easily walk away with the acting honors, the less flamboyant performance of Costner is perhaps the most admirable in the film.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 15, 2019

All of it sizzles with cigar smoke mixing with spent gunpowder and lament.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2019

The Untouchables is a terrific movie, full of the same brand of fierce vitality that made the 1930s gangster films so compelling.

| Jul 17, 2019

While overtly melodramatic, The Untouchables is a perceptive and hard-driven actioner. It's an intriguing character confrontation, loaded with ironies, both personal and social.

| Jun 5, 2018

The Untouchables is two hours of fairly solid entertainment, an eventually uplifting parable about right beating might, cast in the form of a Warner Brothers social realist picture of the thirties.

| Mar 20, 2018