The Gentlemen
STX Entertainment | Release Date: January 24, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 44 Critic Reviews
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23
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4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJan 23, 2020
The Gentlemen never ceases to surprise and amuse. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyJan 24, 2020
Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen plays like a tall tale, a yarn heard at the corner pub, filled with exaggerations and embellishments, where the storyteller expects you to pay his bar tab at the end. And maybe you won't mind doing so. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenJan 23, 2020
The dialogue, the violence, the humor (largely provided by Grant’s character) and the intricacy of the storytelling make for a picture in which most everyone in it seems to be having a great deal of chatty, bloody fun. Read full review
75
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiJan 22, 2020
But like he seems to do with every project these days, Grant runs away with the movie. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJan 23, 2020
The result is a sequence of events that’s both intriguing and gossamer-thin. You enjoy the challenge of figuring out who’s doing what to whom and for what devious reasons, but it all goes out of your head once the story ends and the lights come up. Read full review
70
Screen RantMolly FreemanJan 22, 2020
For those that persevere, there is an entertaining gangster film at the heart of The Gentlemen. There's a frenetic energy to Ritchie's movie that comes in part from his directing style, and part from the cast's clear enjoyment of bringing the film to life. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonDec 19, 2019
Featuring a stellar ensemble cast headed by Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery and Colin Farrell, Ritchie's homecoming is a fairly familiar affair, but also refreshingly funny and deftly plotted, with more witty lines and less boorish machismo than his early work. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattJan 22, 2020
The Gentlemen is nothing if not a callback to the Locks of yesteryear, star-stacked and defibrillated with enough juice to jolt a gorilla out of cardiac arrest. Read full review
65
CNNBrian LowryJan 24, 2020
The Gentlemen [is] just stocked with an inordinately good cast. Filled with crosses and double crosses, the plot is mostly irrelevant, but the outlandish flourishes make for a good deal of foul-mouthed fun. Read full review
65
SlashfilmHoai-Tran BuiJan 23, 2020
Ritchie doesn’t handle the messages he wishes to impart as skillfully as he could — instead, he’s preoccupied with revisiting the beats that made his acclaimed gangster films work best: the sleek style, the staccato rhythm, the casual hyperviolence that begets more violence and an occasional laugh. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTom RussoJan 24, 2020
It’s a diverting if slightly undercooked throwback that could offer more genuine intrigue, but that’s still worth it to see the cast gamely chuck out the window manners and vanity. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJan 23, 2020
Ritchie’s strengths as a filmmaker don’t include developing complex female personalities so Dockery’s Rosalind is more like a male fantasy caricature of a strong woman than an actual character. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Johanna SchnellerJan 23, 2020
Finally, there’s Colin Farrell, who plays a boxing coach called Coach, who tries to keep his Jamaican-English charges on, if not the straight and narrow, the straighter and narrower. He and his lads all wear plaid tracksuits, and it’s a testament to Farrell that he makes this feel entirely natural rather than stunty. He is an underrated master who can do no wrong, and I wish this movie starred him. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreJan 23, 2020
Ritchie papers over a paper-thin story with artificial twists and very funny turns by the likes of Farrell, Grant, Marsan and Dockery. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshJan 22, 2020
The Gentlemen is so blinkered by its outdated (and often offensive) alpha male perspective that it's blind to the elements that could have made it great. Read full review
63
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanJan 21, 2020
A funny, violent, rambunctious shaggy-dog story of a crime caper featuring an ensemble cast studded with colorful characters played by name actors. In other words, it’s more “Snatch” than “Aladdin,” which was only the latest of Ritchie’s misbegotten attempts to achieve mainstream respect by retelling someone else’s stories. Read full review
63
TheWrapNicholas Barber Dec 19, 2019
Ritchie may not be exploring uncharted territory, but you can bet it was more fun to make The Gentlemen than it was to make “Aladdin” or “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.” It’s more fun to watch “The Gentleman” than those films, too. Read full review
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