Review of Capone (2020) by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly — 11 May 2020
Maybe what's most frustrating is how much the movie's deeper themes — morality, mortality, the twilight of power — churn intriguingly at the edges of nearly every scene only to turn toward sentiment, or become merely secondary to its relentless focus on his physical decline.
There’s merit, of course, in exploring the good and bad in every man, even one as notorious as this one; Capone, in the end, just settles for ugly.
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This review of Capone (2020) was written by Leah Greenblatt and published by Entertainment Weekly on 11 May 2020.
Capone has generally received mixed reviews.
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