Review of Bugsy (1991) by Owen Gleiberman for Entertainment Weekly — 24 Oct 2003
What’s finally missing from Bugsy is the dirty, low-down kick of the crime genre — the quality that marked last year’s The Grifters, and that was there in The Godfather, too. Levinson would like to be bad, but his approach is reverent, ironic, tasteful.
He’s made a gangster movie that, for all its lithe pleasures, enunciates too well.
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This review of Bugsy (1991) was written by Owen Gleiberman and published by Entertainment Weekly on 24 Oct 2003.
Bugsy has generally received positive reviews.
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