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Capone

2020

Josh Trank

Tom Hardy, Linda Cardellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Matt Dillon ...

4.4

1,560

Drama The 47-year old Al Capone, after 10 years in prison, starts suffering from dementia, and comes to be haunted by his violent past.

	Media	Author	Review
		Steve Pond The Wrap	"You could think of 'Capone' as 'The Irishman' as reimagined by David Lynch, or as 'Scarface' as tackled by the Stanley Kubrick of 'The Shining' (...) It’s nuts, it’s a mess and it’s pretty damn entertaining"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Handsomely shot and small of scale, 'Capone' ambles along without catching fire (...) There’s something a bit soft — too Hollywood — about [the film]"
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"'Capone' is definitely an unconventional take on the twilight of a notorious gangster. Alas, it's not an interesting one (...) [A] turgid film"
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Production values are impressive. Supporting performances (...) are first-rate. But it’s Hardy who dominates every moment he’s onscreen. Too bad it’s an all-in performance in a movie that goes nowhere (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"I cannot see the future—but it would be a sign of a truly, truly broken year if this hideous indulgence of a film gained any of that kind of traction (...) There is, alas, nothing enriching about 'Capone'. "
		Jim Vejvoda IGN	"Josh Trank’s somber, small-scale drama is not the guns-blazing Al Capone biopic some gangster movie fans might be expecting, but it’s a curiosity that nevertheless demands a look-see for a fresh take on a crime legend."
		Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"Maybe what's most frustrating is how much the movie's deeper themes (...) churn intriguingly at the edges of nearly every scene only to turn toward sentiment, or become merely secondary"
		Brian Truitt USA Today	"Hardy is half of why 'Capone' works. The other is Trank (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"The director and his subject are ultimately buried together in the same boat: We’re made to understand their suffering, but given no reason to root for their salvation."
		Jared Mobarak The Film Stage	"[It] isn’t a knockout comeback, but it’s an undeniably striking and bold endeavor that transcends genre constraints and conventional molds. "
		Barry Hertz The Globe and Mail	"There are ghosts and haunted hallways and so much bright-crimson blood here that you could pin Dario Argento up there with Stanley Kubrick on Trank’s vision board. And it all gets so, so close to working.(…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Chris Evangelista SlashFilm	"'Capone' works in spite of these road bumps, mainly because it’s easy to get wrapped-up in Hardy’s ghoulish performance, and the gothic horror of it all."
		Chris Agar Screen Rant	"One can see what Trank is aiming for, but 'Capone' largely misses its marks more often than not (...) Unless one is a die-hard fan of Hardy or crime dramas (...) [it] doesn't have much to offer (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Chris Bumbray JoBlo	" I can’t say I loved it or even liked it, but you also can’t dismiss it. It’s too well made for that. Ultimately, I respect it enough to give it a pass, but I have serious doubts as to whether or not a movie like this ever has a chance of finding an audience."
		David Crow Den of Geek	"[It] spends its 100 minutes focusing on how much Capone pooped himself during that last year (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"

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