A gorgeously vitriolic crime flick with a personality all its own.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 30, 2024

Remember the Gandhi of Ben Kingsley? Wait until you seem him here as Don Logan, a psychotic gangster, the British equivalent of Pesci in GoodFellas. Kingsley's work is more bizarrely eccentric. And more accomplished.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Apr 30, 2024

…doesn’t have much to do with sex or beasts, despite the giant machine-gun-toting Donnie Darko rabbit that haunts Gal’s dreams, but in terms of British art-house gangster movies, Jonathan Glazer’s uncouth film remains the 200-pound-gorilla in the room…

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2024

Ben Kingsley proves he’s one of the best actors of our time.

Full Review | Nov 28, 2023

... a fierce yet refreshingly understated entry to the resurgence of British gangster films that began in the late 1990s.

Full Review | Oct 27, 2023

Directed with cool assurance, full of unforgettable set-pieces... and even further distinguished by some surreal touches that really get under the skin.

Full Review | Original Score: 8.4 | Aug 4, 2023

Glazer’s debut is more style than substance, as most debut-noirs are.

Full Review | Oct 5, 2022

There's something appealing about the films sometimes clumsy energy, where a stylistic flourish doesn't require an advanced intellectual metaphor because there's feeling behind it.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

Very much like its antihero, this is a movie that occasionally gets caught between two worlds. But it does so with such swagger that it's hard to begrudge its wicked ways.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2021

A crime film like no other, Sexy Beast is composed of moments of startling audacity, visual and dramatic, that arrive in waves, just long enough for you to catch your breath before the next.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 3, 2021

The movie needs to be seen for its clean compositions, for its sure touch of fantasy, and, above all, for the forbidding presence of Kingsley-the prince of darkness, lightly disguised as a human being.

Full Review | Sep 14, 2020

[Jonathan] Glazer's brilliant reimagining of the crime drama is character and performance driven, with a capital C and P.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 18, 2020

...a visceral, mostly captivating thriller that features one of modern cinema's very best villains.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 17, 2020

A stylish, innovative and utterly compelling British crime drama which has stood the test of time very well indeed.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 16, 2020

An extended short film par excellence, and we're permitted to luxuriate in Glazer's skills.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 16, 2018

It's this formal vigor that elevates Sexy Beast well above its generic crime-picture roots.

Full Review | Dec 13, 2013

Stands head and shoulders above the late 90s flurry of British gangster movies. Stylish and confident and built upon a fearsome performance from Ben Kinglsey.

Full Review | Sep 19, 2011

It's not just the ironic kick of watching the guy who played Gandhi get his rocks off on sociopathic violence. Ben Kingsley's Don Logan is one of cinema's all-time fearsome, loathsome villains - stalking even the frames from which he's absent.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 24, 2010

When you get the chance, give this one a look.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 29, 2009

Winstone e (especialmente) Kingsley carregam o filme com suas atuações magnéticas, enquanto Glazer confere charme à narrativa com sua abordagem bem-humorada. Infelizmente, o terceiro ato não sobrevive à ausência do personagem mais interessante do projeto.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2008