15 Minutes Critic Reviews

It's fleet- footed, merciless entertainment. But the mixture of laughs, bathos and brutality is a big turnoff.Read the full review

It all adds up to one of the most brazen pieces of blame-shifting in exploitation-picture history.Read the full review

They (De Niro, Burns) look good together. But what a staggering pity they chose such a nasty, hackneyed movie to demonstrate their chemistry.Read the full review

In a season mostly given over to unwatchable movies being cleared off studio shelves, it's at least about something. And there's no denying the lurid urgency with which it jumps off the screen.Read the full review

If Detroit had produced an equivalent lemon, we might have been seeing the world's first one-wheeled, square-tired car with no cooling system, steering wheel or brakes.Read the full review

Both audacious and unwieldy, exciting and excessive, this dark thriller is too long, too violent and not always convincing. But at the same time, there's no denying that it's onto something, that its savage indictment of the nexus involving media, crime and a voracious public is a cinematic statement difficult to ignore.Read the full review

The picture is more impressive as it goes along, revealing a symmetry of construction underneath the rudiments of a thriller.Read the full review

Clumsy urban thriller.Read the full review

Is less an end in itself than an excuse, a jumping off point for showy, contrived, borderline exploitation sequences that fail to tie together because they're not really there to do anything but sell themselves as money shot thrills.Read the full review