|
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
|
Positive:
15
Mixed:
12
Negative:
0
|
Critic Reviews
Mar 5, 2024
Season 1 Review:
From the picturesque settings and costuming to the use of written on-screen text that helps the audience keep varied deals, people and schemes outlined, the show unfolds like a dazzling web of turmoil, keeping viewers sucked in over its eight episodes. Entertaining — with hijinks, plots and gory violence — “The Gentlemen” irons out the kinks that plagued its film predecessor.
Read full review
ColliderFeb 26, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The Gentlemen is the perfect example of improving an already perfectly good movie by expanding on it to tell a new, and even better, story. The Netflix series has all the things that fans of Ritchie could want but also feels accessible to those who aren’t quite familiar with the auteur. It’s bloody, foul-mouthed, fast-paced, and it doesn’t disappoint.
Read full review
Mar 6, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Some of the storytelling turns are either too convenient or too ridiculous. But that’s the beauty, people: Not everything needs to be prestige TV or a smart drama to get it right. Sometimes, it can just be pure distraction, and The Gentlemen is as successful a bit of escapism as they come.
Read full review
The TimesMar 8, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The standout performances, though, by some measure, are from Ings and James. Yes, you may at times wish it would stop meandering and dial down the slapstick, and, indeed, that it was two episodes shorter. But the bottom line is that it is entertaining and it will make you laugh.
Read full review
Mar 7, 2024
Season 1 Review:
In the moment of viewing, it overrides my instinct to want to criticize the puffery of it all, the flimsy foundation of pure adrenaline, the absence of the artistic impulse to say anything actually meaningful. I just opened a bottle of wine, hit play, and before I knew it, five immensely entertaining episodes had passed.
Read full review
Radio TimesFeb 26, 2024
Season 1 Review:
For all those who enjoyed the film, even loved it, there were others who found it too violent, too glib, too high on its own supply. If that's you, then you'll want to stay away from this series. It's Guy Ritchie going full Guy Ritchie, perhaps the most Guy Ritchie he's ever gone before. If that sounds like a bit of you, though, then strap in - it's going to be a truly wild ride.
Read full review
Mar 5, 2024
Season 1 Review:
There are times when “The Gentlemen” wanders off into the woods and we get a little impatient waiting for the gears to grind again, but thanks in large part to the sharp writing and the stellar performances from Theo James and Kaya Scodelario and the entire ensemble, this is a worthy addition to the Guy Ritchie library of stylish and violent crime thrillers.
Read full review
The PlaylistFeb 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Filled with style, panache, laughs, and a solid cast putting in the effort, it’s largely one of Ritchie’s best comedic efforts in a while and one that wryly suggests barons and burglars are often just different sides of the same coin, inherited, appropriated or otherwise.
Read full review
LooperApr 1, 2024
Season 1 Review:
For all its slickness and charm, "The Gentlemen" never quite justifies its existence as an expanded vision of Ritchie's world. It's a story that feels stretched instead of grown, scraped out across too many hours to give audiences an experience that is, at best, watchable, and at worst, frustrating.
Read full review
iMar 7, 2024
The TelegraphMar 6, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The Ritchie flourishes are irritating – especially on-screen text cutely translating the drugs speak, so when a character offers “£4m sweetened with a bar’s worth of White Widow super cheese”, up pops the explainer that this refers to a million pounds’ worth of “rocket-fuelled marijuana”. But if you can get past this, The Gentleman is a fun caper.
Read full review
Mar 7, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The story behind “The Gentlemen” might be more interesting than the show, with director Guy Ritchie rebooting his 2020 movie as an eight-episode Netflix series. Yet despite the dashing presence of Theo James as the unexpected heir to a cannabis empire, the net result blows by briskly enough but yields relatively few highs.
Read full review
IndieWireMar 7, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Sure, there’s effort and style in the new-and-unimproved “Gentlemen,” but it’s still a copy of a copy of a copy: Ritchie imitated himself in the movie, and now he’s recreating that imitation. While distracting enough, there’s less tension here than concession; less inner battle than business opportunity.
Read full review
RogerEbert.comFeb 29, 2024
The Observer (UK)Sep 10, 2024
Mar 7, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The plot is more comprehensible, there’s less casual racism and antisemitism in the script, and Scodelario gets the heaps of screen time she deserves in a variation on Dockery’s underwritten role. But midway through season, Ritchie’s signature affectations get tiresome, and the format predictable.
Read full review
Current TV Shows
By MetascoreBy User Score