Blow (2001) Critic Reviews

Depp's witty, spare performance gives the picture a poignancy -- a depth of feeling, if you'll allow the pun -- that Mr. Demme's hectic direction and the hurried script by David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes don't quite earn.Read the full review

This is an extraordinary -- and unfathomable -- piece of whitewashing: a true snow job.Read the full review

Respectable but unmemorable end result may suffer from comparison with the similarly themed, albeit differently angled, “Traffic.”Read the full review

If any element takes us through the movie, it's him (Depp).Read the full review

It's an honest portrayal, but it leaves the audience stranded, without the emotional hook of a character we can care about.Read the full review

Blew its chance to be an epic drug opera. It's only nostril-deep.Read the full review

A textbook case of a film that's befuddled by its subject.Read the full review

This single cautionary tale of how drug innocence gives way to woeful, hung-over experience proves to be way too predictable to effectively caution or even involve anyone.Read the full review

Consistently compelling without being truly memorable.Read the full review