Sleepers Critic Reviews

Colorful characters, richly evoked settings, epic story of friendship, crime and punishment, and a strong dose of good old-fashioned star power.Read the full review

Sleepers, for all the doubts it raises, is the work of a man who speaks for absent friends and "for the children we were." It's his secret heart.Read the full review

Two and one- half hours of gripping entertainment.Read the full review

Engrosses if it doesn't fully convince. [18 October 1996, p.1D]Read the full review

A visual masterpiece that powerfully explores male cruelty, too.Read the full review

As entertainment, the movie functions successfully. But I don't believe the story is true--not true to the facts, and not true to the morality it pretends to be about.Read the full review

It features a pleasing mix of good-guy gumshoeing, smart-alecky dialogue and courtroom surprises.Read the full review

Muddy, confused, and worst of all boring, Sleepers grinds to the preordained halt shared by any over-budgeted epic that lacks the simple necessity of good story.Read the full review

By the end, the main thing that's been abused is the audience's intelligence.Read the full review