Review of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) by Mickey C — 08 Apr 2011

A great movie, particularly the first scene...

This review of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) was written by Mickey C on 08 Apr 2011.

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead has generally received very positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Review of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

By Jon G (407) on 14 Jul 2014

Great Story. Great Acting. Great Director. Great Movie…

Read Review

Review of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 24 Oct 2014

A wicked deconstruction of a dysfunctional clan: brothers at each other's throats; a father whose legacy is anger and betrayal; an unfaithful…

Read Review

Review of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

By Ben B (1,489) on 14 Sep 2016

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is a crime drama directed by Sidney Lumet and stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, and Marisa Tomei…

Read Review

Review of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

By Grant T (830) on 09 Apr 2015

With a plethora of exceptional performances and an intriguing fractured-narrative device, Lumet cultivates an experience that is both moving…

Read Review

Review of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

By Kaleem Aftab (340) for The List (2,018) on 03 Nov 2018

Sidney Lumet returns to the sort of form he showed in his heyday. It helps that we're on Lumet's favourite territory -- the heist gone wrong…

Read Review

Review of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

By Blake P (935) on 16 Sep 2016

Dirty rotten scoundrels these men are, but they weren't born that way - evidently there was a time in which they were sanguine, aware of their…

Read Review

Review of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

By Dimitrios F (5) on 16 Nov 2014

An excellent drama focusing around this dysfunctional family and a deadly plot gone wrong…

Read Review

Review of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 05 Jul 2017

Its virtues are velocity, energy, innovative storytelling - and something that seems even more the province of young directors: a certain heartlessness…

Read Review

Review of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

By Knox M (462) on 26 Dec 2017

The rationale behind the actions taken by the characters are subject to your interpretation. Excellent plot…

Read Review

Review of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

By Lawrence Levi (2) for Stop Smiling (70) on 15 May 2016

The problem is that we get no real sense of what these characters were like before everything went haywire, so little is believably at stake…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of Rocky II (1979)

By Danny C (398) on 12 Sep 2010

I didn't even finish watching this one…

Read Review

Review of Hollywoodland (2006)

By Jocastat. (1) on 12 Sep 2006

Absolutely atrocious. The script was banal and general, and really told no particular story whatsoever. A two hour meander…

Read Review

Review of Secret Window (2004)

By Martin Scribbs (122) for Mixed Reviews (171) on 05 Aug 2004

Another lousy movie adapted from Stephen King's writing; another slander against the mentally ill; another energetic Depp performance in a…

Read Review

Review of Rocky V (1990)

By Aaronpaul121 (79) on 24 May 2012

Definitely the worst of all Rocky movies. The scenes were just bad and the acting is really weird…

Read Review

Review of Freedom Writers (2007)

By Teta T (4) on 04 Aug 2014

The moive is great!! I have learned alot from it since the first time I seen it…

Read Review

Review of The Discovery of Heaven (2001)

By Cátia M (19) on 12 Jul 2010

This is a very bad interpretation of a fabulous book, it doesn't provide any insight into the characters, their ideas; I highly recommend the…

Read Review

Review of Touch of Evil (1958)

By Terrence W (34) on 13 Jun 2009

This was an extremely disappointing movie…

Read Review

Review of Eight Miles High (2007)

By Robert H (1,967) on 10 Sep 2010

I don't like memoirs to start with. I despise the hippie era of 60's and 70's. Hence, not one movie describing that epoch earned my respect…

Read Review

Review of Monster's Ball (2001)

By Robert C (1,701) on 02 Oct 2017

This movie is awful…

Read Review

Review of Clean, Shaven (1995)

By Nordic S (56) on 25 Sep 2008

Indie movie trying to give us insight into a schizophrenic man but is more about random moments with out any real story…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

The Invitation

2022

47%33 Reviews

Parasite

2019

87%251 Reviews

Babylon

2022

68%144 Reviews

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019

81%344 Reviews

Dark Waters

2019

76%68 Reviews

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

2023

79%186 Reviews

Alien: Covenant

2017

61%1,909 Reviews

Interstellar

2014

83%1,261 Reviews

Avengers: Endgame

2019

86%432 Reviews

Where the Crawdads Sing

2022

63%92 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

2007

76%792 Reviews

Europa Report

2013

64%768 Reviews

Willow Creek

2013

51%232 Reviews

Breach

2007

70%669 Reviews

Amélie

2001

80%918 Reviews

Powder

2010

66%379 Reviews

Race 3

2018

27%30 Reviews

The Last Days of Patton

1986

64%9 Reviews

Bella

2007

61%597 Reviews

An American Carol

2008

40%594 Reviews