Has Martin Scorsese’s camera ever had as much fun as it does here?

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 24, 2023

There are still a few surprises that have the potency to remain memorable, but, ultimately, when devious, dishonest people use one another for two hours, the end result is rarely satisfying.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Aug 29, 2022

Everything, including a splendid cast, works like a clockwork mechanism in which Scorsese faces youth with experience. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Aug 27, 2019

Yes, sure, this is mid-level Scorsese. But it says something about the director that his mid-level work still beats the hell out of just about anyone else's best.

Full Review | Apr 8, 2017

The confrontational climax never quite convinces, but Richard Price's knockout script is one to treasure and director Martin Scorsese brings his trademark visual style to bear on the production.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2017

Scorsese is peerless at mining the streaks of courage and excellence that might redeem such low-life sleaze. And Scorsese again proves himself a master with actors.

Full Review | Feb 6, 2017

The premise might sound interesting, but the plotting is so utterly predictable that The Color of Money turns into a pool-room variation of The Karate Kid.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 6, 2017

It is a surprise, and a disappointment.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 6, 2017

Though this is clearly Newman's picture, Tom Cruise also is a joy to watch.

Full Review | Feb 6, 2017

[Scorsese] delivers the cinematic charge of the pool room culture of hustle and gamesmanship along with the education of a young protg lacking self and a mentor who has yet to face his own conflicted feelings about the game.

Full Review | Dec 15, 2016

There's nothing [Martin Scorsese] made so achingly generic and impersonal as this.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 25, 2014

It's entertaining and at times even insightful, but nowhere near as powerful-or memorable-as "The Hustler."

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 30, 2012

Working with his crack technical team, Scorsese turns the film into a high-wire act, using everything from the crack of the balls to the soundtrack (best bit: Cruise playing and preening to Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London") to pump up the action.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 14, 2012

A gamble that teens will get this adult's movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2010

As a standalone movie, it is a memorable entry in Scorsese and Newman's filmographies. But as a companion piece to The Hustler, it is an exceptional example on how to revisit an iconic character with respect, and above all, with a healthy new vision.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 6, 2010

A joy to see two masters (Scorsese and Newman) at ease with their work, and one, Cruise, in the making.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 6, 2008

A hard act to follow, but Scorsese does it in style.

Full Review | Aug 6, 2008

We are not on Rocky's side of the street, but in Martin Scorsese country, where bent character, not sentiment, shapes destiny, and the best the struggling human spirit can hope for is a split decision.

Full Review | Aug 1, 2008

Lacking the urgency, dramatic momentum, and mood of the wonderful 1961 The Hustler, Scorsese's sequel is an enjoyable but ultimately disappointing sequel, and one of his most generic and least personal works.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Feb 9, 2008

Word is that Paul Newman gave Iggy Pop the cold shoulder during the filming.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2007