The end of this movie doesn't justify the means as director Bryan Singer takes his audience on a cat and mouse chase that never finds its way.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 29, 2024

...a perpetually engrossing endeavor that benefits from its myriad of above-average, inherently spellbinding attributes...

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 9, 2024

Singer has an obvious grasp of craft, but it's far less clear whether he has anything to say about movies, violence, the world, or his place in the world.

| Dec 27, 2022

With one Internet to rule them all, it's hard for most folks to avoid cinematic spoilers of yore (whether it's the sled in Citizen Kane or the penis in The Crying Game), but even knowing the answer shouldn't spoil this film's myriad other pleasures.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 7, 2022

An intricate doodle of no special importance. It’s all play, all illusion, all movie.

| Original Score: B | Sep 1, 2022

Never a dull moment in this one!

| May 13, 2022

It is a wonderful film, with a plot as complicated as Farewell My Lovely and as violent as any of Mr. Stallone’s pictures.

| Apr 25, 2022

Singer uses a clever combination of flashback and straight narrative to keep his tale of crime and betrayal moving through a tangle of blind alleys and false leads.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 19, 2021

The Usual Suspects flirts with greatness but attempts too much. It's a fascinating failure.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2021

Features perhaps the most famous of all movie lineups and the most unforgettable series of unpredictable twists.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Sep 25, 2020

One of the best heist films ever made. Includes one of the all-time best twists/reveals in film history. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 2, 2020

In all of my heist movies research, and all of the things that I've watched recently, I think The Usual Suspects might be the best heist movie of all time.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 15, 2020

EVERYTHING that takes place during the two hours minus a quarter of footage comes to affirm that in Singer we had found a rough diamond that already polished some facets. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 23, 2019

A film that was compelling enough with its intricate narrative and colorful cast of degenerates, became an entirely different beast with its final sequence, putting the twist in plot-twist more memorably than M. Night Shyamalan could ever dream of.

| Jun 20, 2019

A movie where the getting-there (and the getting-away-with-it) is everything.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 10, 2018

Singer, like Tarantino, is less into mining new film themes than in re-inventing old ones. And the way he does so shows full well that there is still a bit of life in the old mob movie yet.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 18, 2013

It stands up brilliantly to repeat viewing, to the extent that you may never fully solve the riddle. But don't let that put you off; it's the ultimate whodunit.

| Jun 18, 2013

It's a film that demands to be watched again and again -- this is good old-fashioned pulp fiction told in the slickest 1990s style.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 18, 2013

Give director Bryan Singer credit for providing a plot that is not resolved by an exchange of gunfire, but don't expect the movie's glib punchline to stay with you for very long.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 18, 2013

An imaginative, entertaining crime mystery with plenty of nerve and vigor.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 18, 2013