Analyze This
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: March 5, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
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Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
19
Mixed:
7
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
More than a high concept stretched to feature length. This is a funny and extremely satisfying comedy, the best in a while. Read full review
91
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Crystal turns in his best (read: least sappy) performance in ages, getting through an entire movie -- most of it, anyway -- without mugging. Read full review
90
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Ramis has made a fleet, unself-conscious, eminently enjoyable picture, where one-liners carom merrily like stray bullets, and where there's casual ease, like the drape of a sharpster's trousers, in the rapport between its two stars. Read full review
90
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Watching De Niro take Paul through his first panic attack ("I'm crying like a woman") is an unalloyed joy. Read full review
90
Film.comPeter Brunette
Sure, the territory is not exactly fresh...but the chemistry between the two leads is so explosive yet assured, and the comic timing so perfect, that the cliches are given new life.
80
Washington PostRita Kempley
Ramis...does extract every last yuk from this lively clash of id and superego, this spoofy buddies' odyssey from underworld to Prozac nation. Read full review
80
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
A funny, tightly plotted, well-conceived comedy that transcends both Crystal's '90s curse and its horrible title. Read full review
80
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
As he demonstrated in "Groundhog Day," Ramis knows how to handle a high-concept story with unusual cleverness, and he does it again here. It helps to no end that De Niro and Crystal, despite their obvious differences, are perfectly in tune. Read full review
80
The New YorkerDavid Denby
You can see the jokes coming well in advance, but you still laugh uncontrollably. Read full review
75
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
It's the most liberated and alive [DeNiro]'s been since his deluded Rupert Pupkin tried to kidnap Jerry Lewis in "King of Comedy." Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The comedy here isn't all on the surface, and Viterelli [the bodyguard Jelly] is one reason why. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Maybe the problem with Analyze This is that it isn't enough of a Ramis movie. [5 Mar 1999]
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Frequently funny and occasionally hilarious. Read full review
70
New Times (L.A.)Bill Gallo
Analyze This won't win any Oscars, and its comedy is pretty tortured in places, but the pleasures of watching DeNiro onscreen never diminish--not even when he's putting the glories of his criminal past at risk. Read full review
70
SlateDavid Edelstein
Its structure is repetitive, but each scene begins with a joyous blast of comic energy...A hoot. Read full review
70
NewsweekAndrea C. Basora
There are some moments that fall flat—the cinematic world might be a better place without Crystal's deeply unfunny parody of a gangster—and the delightful Lisa Kudrow is woefully under-used. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
It's still possible to have a good time at this movie, and the primary reason is De Niro. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleRussell Smith
As enjoyable as it is, it's hard to escape a sense of Analyze This being the work of competent talents who knew exactly where the good-enough line was and didn't feel particularly inspired to push far beyond it. Read full review
63
USA TodayMike Clark
Because De Niro's performance is aptly ''Scorsese-aggressive'' while Crystal effectively underplays, one can easily sit through this bottom-line disappointment with a smile painted on, waiting for belly laughs that rarely come. [5 Mar 1999]
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