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By Duane Byrge (235) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 04 Jun 2018

While overtly melodramatic, The Untouchables is a perceptive and hard-driven actioner…

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By Derek Malcolm (772) for Guardian (4,584) on 20 Mar 2018

The Untouchables is two hours of fairly solid entertainment, an eventually uplifting parable about right beating might, cast in the form of…

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By Cathy Burke (83) for United Press International (113) on 08 Nov 2016

Taut screenwriting (David Mamet) and a superb cast -- including a prize-winning performance by Sean Connery as the veteran Chicago cop -- help…

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By Gene Siskel (446) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 09 Jun 2014

Ethics aside, the filmmaking by DePalma is stylish and alternates between shocking surprise and hold-your-breath quiet…

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By Hal Hinson (447) for Washington Post (9,851) on 03 Jun 2014

The real root of the movie's problems may lie in the fact that Mamet has identified with the men of principle and De Palma with the scoundrels…

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By Carrie Rickey (1,198) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 24 Jun 2013

Apart from Connery, the star of the film is Mamet's deadpan script, which obviously inspired one of the movie's baldest old-movie tributes…

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By Ben Yagoda (18) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 24 Jun 2013

De Palma does superb job with the action sequences, which are choreographed, paced and acted out so well that they don't leave a palm dry in…

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By Simon Kinnear (107) for Total Film (3,532) on 24 Jun 2013

De Palma's style rides substance out of town to leave a glorious compendium of genre cool, remixing the original '50s TV series just as Indiana…

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By Ralph Novak (87) for People Magazine (358) on 24 Jun 2013

From a director of De Palma's resources -- both aesthetic and, these days, financial -- it's fair to expect something more than just not being bored…

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By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 24 Jun 2013

The real root of the movie's problems may lie in the fact that Mamet has identified with the men of principle and De Palma with the scoundrels…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 20 May 2008

The results are watchable enough, with a particularly adept use of Sean Connery, Chicago locations, and period details…

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By Brian Case (8) for Time Out (7,510) on 09 Feb 2006

The narrative thunders to its conclusion like a locomotive…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 24 Jun 2005

De Palma's stylish crime-gangster tale is extremely enjoybale in large measure due to the set-pieces and homages to Sergio Leone and Eisenstein,…

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By Scott Weinberg (1,998) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 02 Apr 2005

De Palma, Mamet, De Niro, Connery ... what's not to like…

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By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Oct 2004

Steeped in De Palma's glorious violence and sinuous cinematography, but stripped of his tricky sensuality and his anarchic self-reflective…

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By Ian Nathan (392) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 14 Sep 2004

Superb performances, exquisite direction and that Ennio Morricone score create an authentic 1920s Chicago feel and a hugely entertaining crime drama…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 24 Aug 2004

The pacing is lethargic as the director seems to treat this saga of law and order with mock seriousness…

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By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 07 Mar 2004

Costner's lack of charisma, Connery's arrogance, and De Palma's disinterest in his material add up to a pretty lame couple of hours…

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By Vincent Canby (762) for New York Times (5,786) on 19 May 2003

Hollywood's latest big-budget, high-concept, mass-market reworking of material not entirely fresh, has more endings than Beethoven's Fifth,…

Review of The Untouchables (1987)

By Brian Mckay (336) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 18 Mar 2003

One of De Palma's best. Great period gangster film. Connery and De Niro fantastic…

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Film critics gave The Untouchables (1987) an average score of 84%, indicating generally very positive reviews.

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