Sexy Beast Critic Reviews

A vicious horror flick with an actual beast and someone who just acts like one.Read the full review

Carries so much impacted menace and visual narrative gamesmanship that it brought back some of the excitement I felt nearly a decade ago watching Quentin Tarantino's ''Reservoir Dogs.''Read the full review

He's (Kingsley) pure violence, a sociopath who radiates menace even while sitting perfectly still mouthing pleasantries.Read the full review

Though it can overreach for emotional effect and overplay its hand at times -- Sexy Beast brings considerable virtues to telling this tale, including a great eye for faces and director Glazer's palpable excitement at working in the feature medium.Read the full review

Kingsley creates an unforgettable monster. Acting rarely gets this hypnotically explosive.Read the full review

The movie is riotously entertaining, and with a big heart, too.Read the full review

These are hard men. They could have the "Sopranos" for dinner, throw up and have them again.Read the full review

A Molotov cocktail of a movie, an engaging conflagration of British B-flick, cockney wit and gallows humor. There's even a delicate little love story in there.Read the full review

Appeal lies on the bright, shiny surface of its ostensibly simple plot, and in its rat-a-tat-tat language, which often sounds like Mamet-visits-Spyne.Read the full review