Dom Hemingway
Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: April 2, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
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Mixed or average reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews
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19
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14
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanApr 2, 2014
If ever there were an actor ripe to ''McConaughnesize'' his career, it's Jude Law — and guess what, he has done it, spectacularly, in Dom Hemingway. Read full review
85
Film.comJordan HoffmanSep 15, 2013
There are countless clever dialogue parries as well as some quite outstanding rants. It definitely takes the movie outside of the world of pure realism, but the theatricality is well worth it. Read full review
83
Portland OregonianMarc MohanApr 16, 2014
The star's innate vulnerability (and his ease with Dom's colorful but expansive vocabulary) makes the character more sympathetic than he has any right to be. And that, in turn, makes Shepard's film more entertaining than the Guy Ritchie ripoff it initially resembles. Read full review
83
The PlaylistKevin JagernauthSep 15, 2013
While there's no doubt that Shepard's film is frequently laugh-out-loud funny and impressively, wittily written, with a finely tuned ear for the perfect bit of foul language, it stumbles slightly on the story side. Read full review
80
The New YorkerDavid DenbyApr 9, 2014
Jude Law, saying farewell once again to his youthful good looks (Dom has scars and a little too much weight), makes this hyper-articulate ruffian the most intricately soulful character in current movies. [7 April 2014, p.75]
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsApr 17, 2014
The movie is best enjoyed as a minor-key operatic, not a coherent story. While Law bellows blasphemous poetry, his director orchestrates a noirish light show with a cockeyed rhythm. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezApr 17, 2014
Dom Hemingway is often viciously funny in unexpected ways, and every time you think the movie has run out of steam, Shepard spins things in a new direction, keeping the energy from flagging (including one of the most startling car crashes I’ve ever seen in a film). Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonApr 10, 2014
Dom Hemingway isn't about story. It's about Jude Law as a force of nature, and that turns out to be a very entertaining diversion. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyApr 2, 2014
The drama Dom Hemingway explores involves a vicious lout finding a form of redemption, and while that's an all-too conventional scenario, Shepard's movie plays it out in a brisk, inventive fashion and delivers a moviegoing experience that's almost equal parts stingingly sharp and genuinely sweet. Read full review
75
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreApr 1, 2014
Writer-director Richard Shepard did “”The Matador” and “The Hunting Party”, and he surrounds Law’s lunatic Dom with assorted underworld figures who have mellowed where Dom did not. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloApr 1, 2014
Dom Hemingway is often ghoulishly funny, with Law, who put on weight for the role and plays up his receding hairline, turning in a larger-than-life performance unlike any he’s given before. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghApr 24, 2014
Dom Hemingway is a naughty good time while it lives up to the unpredictable bawdiness of its opening line. Read full review
70
The DissolveScott TobiasApr 1, 2014
Shepard’s image de-habilitation on Law smacks of gimmickry—and the world has no immediate need for another vulgar British crime picture—but the actor seems invigorated by the change, and the film matches his robustness to a fault. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeSep 15, 2013
Shepard balances a livelier-than-life script with striking, super-saturated images, which makes the film feel bigger than it is. Read full review
67
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallApr 17, 2014
Jude Law's ferociously vulgar portrayal of a hard-luck safecracker carries the first hour of this amorality tale. Then writer-director Richard Shepard makes the creatively fatal mistake of making Dom Hemingway sympathetic, when irredeemable is much more fun. Read full review
63
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanApr 11, 2014
Though writer-director Richard Shepard (“The Matador”) knows how to spin a yarn about the vicissitudes of fate, Dom’s adventures make for a pretty thin garment in which to cloth such an outsize antihero. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliApr 10, 2014
The one thing that never falters during the course of the film is Jude Law's volcanic performance. Reminiscent of Tom Hardy's turn in Bronson, this is the kind of portrayal that garners notice and raves. Read full review
63
Boston GlobePeter KeoughApr 10, 2014
Entertaining if inconsequential gangster farce. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsApr 10, 2014
The material, limited payoff; the performer at the center, never less than arresting. Read full review
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