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100
Viewer score based on 6 votes.

Critic Score

76
Critics' score based on 22 reviews.
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Heat is in the cop-movie pantheon with Akira Kurosawa's "High and Low," and that's as "right" as the genre gets.Full Review

Mike Clark
USA Today

A sleek, accomplished piece of work, meticulously controlled and completely involving. The dark end of the street doesn't get much more inviting than this.Full Review

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times

Stunningly made and incisively acted by a large and terrific cast, Michael Mann's ambitious study of the relativity of good and evil stands apart from other films of its type by virtue of its extraordinarily rich characterizations and its thoughtful, deeply melancholy take on modern life.Full Review

Todd McCarthy
Variety

As with his other works, [Mann] binds sound, music and pictures into one hypnotic triaxial cable and plugs it right into your brain. He makes this almost-three-hour experience practically glide by.Full Review

Desson Thomson
Washington Post

Above all, the dialogue is complex enough to allow the characters to say what they're thinking: They are eloquent, insightful, fanciful, poetic when necessary. They're not trapped with cliches.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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