It's an exhilarating sparring match between Duvall's workmanlike fine-tuning and Penn's raw energy. [15 Apr 1988]Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Ty Burr
Sean Penn and Robert Duvall basically played the Two Faces of Dennis: hyper young firebrand and cautious older lion.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
A special movie - not just a police thriller, but a movie that has researched gangs and given some thought to what it wants to say about them.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Elvis Mitchell
Though it all comes together, most tragically, at the conclusion, Colors is less notable for its plot than for its chilling urgency and its sense of pure style. [15 Apr 1988, p.C4]Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
At 120 minutes, Colors is one of the longest cop dramas in movie history, and all the clichés are packed into the second hour. It fades in the stretch - and so may too many moviegoers. [15 Apr 1988]Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Hal Hinson
The movie lacks a sure sense of purpose and direction, and, watching it, you can't help but feel that Hopper, by stepping back and refusing to assert his own point of view, has on some essential level abdicated his responsibility as a director. [15 Apr 1988]Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
Along with other cast members, Penn takes ages registering his stares and scowls, until the movie is finally not about gangs but about actors' attitudes. Dressed up in '80s street slang, this is a '60s exercise in Method excess. [18 Apr 1988]Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Sheila Benson
Without complexity to its characters, with little balance and without a hint of the personal, family or community issues involved, Colors becomes a movie that never has to ask "Why?"--a vivid, noisy shell of a film filled with eager young actors rattling along on the surface of a lethally important subject. [15 Apr 1988]Read Full Review »
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