With Jack Nicholson as the star and playwright David Mamet writing the script, Hoffa sounds unbeatable. But the movie is a major disappointment.

Full Review | Oct 15, 2019

Big and portentous, Hoffa feels like a series of acting exercises inflated to epic proportions. But as a portrait of unionism's most controversial figure, it offers only flickering illumination.

Full Review | Aug 14, 2018

Danny De Vito's Hoffa is artfully constructed, masterfully played, and travels at speeds beyond the prescriptive norm.

Full Review | Aug 14, 2018

Hoffa, with its jaundiced script and a director wedded to his rose-tinted spectacles, is a mess, with only the sterling truculence of Nicholson's performance to mitigate it.

Full Review | Nov 14, 2017

DeVito is blasting away with the audacity of a film student, making Hoffa an effort of extraordinary detail, craftsmanship, and directorial ingenuity.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Mar 20, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: D | Sep 7, 2011

Nicholson's intense, volcanic performance saves this part-fact, part-fiction biopic that's a little too in awe of its subject.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 18, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 17, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 10, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 8, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 19, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 30, 2003

An extremely underrated film. Well worth watching, again and again.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10 | Jan 28, 2003

A hugely underrated, passionate, powerful biopic.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 17, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2002

A decent, but flawed movie. The performance by Nicholson is tremendous, and he really becomes Hoffa, but the rest of the film just isn't on the same level as he is. Unless you're a big fan of Jack, or particularly interested by Hoffa, pass.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 9, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 8, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2002