Capone
Vertical Entertainment | Release Date (Streaming): May 12, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews
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12
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16
Negative:
9
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
ConsequenceScout TafoyaMay 13, 2020
Trank’s had to suffer a lot to get to make his art, and Capone is one of the most bravely singular and uncommon films you’ll see this year. Read full review
75
TheWrapSteve PondMay 11, 2020
It’s nuts, it’s a mess and it’s pretty damn entertaining if you don’t mind characters pooping the bed and getting stabbed in the neck. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMay 11, 2020
Capone is about as demented a movie as you can see right now, and that’s apart from the fact that it’s about a demented person. If Al Capone were ever put in an insane asylum (he wasn’t), this movie could have been made by the guy in the next room. Read full review
75
USA TodayBrian TruittMay 11, 2020
Hardy is half of why Capone works. The other is Trank, the wunderkind whose nuanced 2012 superhero movie “Chronicle” showcased tons of potential that then was questioned with the disastrous “Fantastic Four” and the loss of a “Star Wars” film in its aftermath. Read full review
73
PolygonKaren HanMay 19, 2020
Capone is an ambitious, impressive film. But there’s a bittersweetness to it, too. Read full review
70
IGNJim VejvodaMay 11, 2020
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 whose most notorious exploits have been retold many times already. Read full review
70
SlashfilmChris EvangelistaMay 11, 2020
It’s all overly theatrical, and not at all concerned with being grounded in reality. And there’s something refreshing about seeing a gangster movie filtered through this sort of lens. Read full review
67
The Film StageJared MobarakMay 11, 2020
Capone isn’t a knockout comeback, but it’s an undeniably striking and bold endeavor that transcends genre constraints and conventional molds. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrMay 14, 2020
The British actor works his gonzo Method madness with such rigorous control, though, that he’s mesmerizing to watch even when the movie around him is losing its mind. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzMay 12, 2020
The star's Capone Voice is really something else, though — right up there with Hardy's Bane in "The Dark Knight Rises" and the title character of "Bronson" and the murderous trapper in "The Revenant" in goofy daring, as well as raw material for celebrity impressions that one might attempt while buzzed at a party. No matter how many times you hear it, it never seems to issue organically from the man on the screen. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 11, 2020
But Hardy is fascinating to watch, first scene to last, an actor wholly committed, as always, even if the script for this showcase feels incomplete or straight-to-video. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzMay 11, 2020
The tension between trying to make something unique and trying to adhere to whatever expectations you place on yourself when you call your movie Capone (although to be fair its working title was Fonzo) is right up there onscreen. In all its glorious mess. Read full review
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