The Gentlemen
STX Entertainment | Release Date: January 24, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
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Mixed or average reviews based on 44 Critic Reviews
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17
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23
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Total FilmJames MottramDec 19, 2019
Ritchie makes a solid return to his wheelhouse with a crime yarn that turns the air so blue you can swim in it. Read full review
60
EmpireIan FreerDec 19, 2019
What it lacks in freshness and depth, The Gentlemen certainly makes up for in cartoon-y bluster and fun details. Read full review
60
The TelegraphRobbie CollinDec 19, 2019
The Gentlemen is a valiant, often raucous bid to drag the tried-and-true old Ritchie formula into the present, and while the result feels like he got about as far as 2005 – with lip-service acknowledgements of grime music and YouTube – for the purposes of this film, it’s close enough. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawDec 19, 2019
Ritchie has made an entertaining return to his mockney roots. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubVikram MurthiJan 22, 2020
Too often, The Gentlemen creaks through the motions of Ritchie’s patented vision, absent the spark necessary to bring his fast-paced action and profane zingers to life. It’s like watching a reunited band struggle to recapture the energy of its glory days. Read full review
58
Original-CinJim SlotekJan 22, 2020
Ritchie is looking back to the Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and RocknRolla roots as if nothing has changed since. The Gentlemen is simply those movies with extra everything except inspiration. And sometimes more is less. Read full review
55
Vanity FairRichard LawsonJan 23, 2020
The Gentlemen is a homecoming film, reuniting Ritchie with his once-signature style of narrative jumble and jocular menace. Watching it, I felt the calm of familiarity wash over me, the dim feeling like I’d somehow folded back into a time simpler only for having already happened.
50
The New YorkerAnthony LaneJan 27, 2020
The Gentlemen is a mongrel of a movie. There are not enough twists and tangles for a proper mystery, not enough thrills for an action flick, and not enough laughs for a comedy. Read full review
50
The PlaylistMatthew MonagleJan 27, 2020
If Ritchie had been willing to reflect on his relationship to his own body of work a bit more – the tropes of British gangster films that he himself helped create – then perhaps The Gentlemen could’ve found that next gear that would’ve made it something truly special. Instead, Ritchie’s film proves he might be best served by walking away from the genre entirely. Read full review
50
The Associated PressJake CoyleJan 24, 2020
Hunnam’s presence, alone, keeps the movie grounded. But the movie time and time again exalts the gallantry of its gentlemen heroes at the expense of those unlike them. It gives this glass of Gritchie’s English Lore a bitter taste. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJan 23, 2020
As an evening’s entertainment, it’s almost passable — genially diverting one minute, sour and self-satisfied the next. As a men’s fashion showcase, it’s exemplary — a parade of neatly tailored charcoal waistcoats, colorful flannel tracksuits and a lovely ribbed cardigan that Charlie Hunnam wears like a second skin. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla DargisJan 22, 2020
The point is cleverness and looking cool, though, mostly the movie is about Ritchie’s own conspicuous pleasure directing famous actors having a lark, trading insults, making mischief. There’s not much else, which depending on your mood and the laxity of your ethical qualms, might be enough. Read full review
42
ConsequenceClint WorthingtonJan 23, 2020
In something as herky-jerky and convoluted as The Gentlemen, the viewer has enough to worry about keeping the whole story straight without dreading the next tone-deaf thing to come out of an esteemed character actor’s mouth. Read full review
42
IndieWireMike McCahillDec 19, 2019
Visually unexceptional when it’s not plain squalid, shameless in its bid for a sequel, The Gentlemen is the film Britain deserves as it staggers backwards into the New Year under the questionable influence of an unabashedly populist leader. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreJan 23, 2020
For a filmmaker who used to make these movies with a measure of anarchic glee, Ritchie appears to have bought into his own bullshit here. Read full review
40
TimeStephanie ZacharekJan 23, 2020
It should be fun – but it isn’t. Ritchie, who wrote the screenplay from a story he conceived with Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies, veers into territory that’s possibly anti-Semitic and maybe a little racist. It’s all a lark, so we’re not supposed to care, but some of the gags still leave a bitter aftertaste. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicElizabeth MontgomeryJan 23, 2020
Take away the confusing plot and throwaway punchlines and the cast is by far the best part of the film — and the reason many will go see it. If only they were part of a different movie. The Gentlemen doesn't live up to the hype. Read full review
40
Rolling StoneDavid FearJan 22, 2020
The result isn’t exactly Lock, Stock Redux. Only the “stock” part remains. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisJan 22, 2020
Movies shouldn’t have to meet a PC checklist so they won’t offend – who wants that kind of cinema? – but when they poke you in the eye one too many times, it’s fair game to poke back. Read full review
40
IGNTom JorgensenJan 22, 2020
The movie doesn’t end up going anywhere and serves as little more than an excuse to get the movie’s stars into dapper suits and flat caps. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Simran HansJan 4, 2020
Guy Ritchie’s latest gangster comedy presents itself as a harmless romp, but behind its wink-wink-nudge-nudge humour is a bitter and dated worldview. Read full review
40
Screen DailySarah WardDec 19, 2019
The Gentlemen is a disposable crime caper on autopilot. Propped up by an all-star ensemble, particularly the sturdy Charlie Hunnam and scene-stealer Colin Farrell, Guy Ritchie reclaims the genre that brought him to fame but does little more than shuffle battered parts into an intermittently entertaining configuration. Read full review
40
VarietyGuy LodgeDec 19, 2019
The actors, splendidly kitted out in autumnal suiting and knitwear by costume designer Michael Wilkinson, have what fun they can with such thin, dated material, but everyone here deserves better. Read full review
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