Ritchie concocts a crime-jungle demimonde that's organically linked to the real world, and it's a damn fun one to visit.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The bottom line is, all these people chase the same money around with the success of doggie tail-biting, and it's a lot of fun, and it's not often in these con films that everybody is conning everybody, and they're all scared to death, and nobody knows which cup the pea is under.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
The main problem is that Ritchie keeps playing the same old song. It's a swell tune, and we don't mind hearing it every few years, but we'd welcome another subject in a transposed key. Even the Material Girl tries out fresh material.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
RocknRolla is a kickass crime drama that just doesn't know to quit while it's ahead.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
It's fun to see Tom Wilkinson, for instance, with a massive bald spot virtually eating scenery with a knife and fork.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
A well-acted and attitudinal action movie, a return to Ritchie's trademark "Mockney" style, which takes amusing and twisted turns.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Sam Adams
Ritchie whisks you along on a whirlwind tour, but he's not averse to putting on the brakes long enough to admire some of his favorite attractions.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
As punchy and energetic as the first few moments are, the rest of the film quickly falls back into mediocrity.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
If only RocknRolla's characters were at all believable - even in the context of its own cartoon universe.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
Like the filmmaking itself, the violence has no passion, no oomph, no sense of real or even feigned purpose.Read Full Review »
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