Heat (1995)
Critic Reviews
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100
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
A sleek, accomplished piece of work, meticulously controlled and completely involving. The dark end of the street doesn't get much more inviting than this.
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100
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USA Today Mike Clark
Heat is in the cop-movie pantheon with Akira Kurosawa's "High and Low," and that's as "right" as the genre gets.
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100
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Austin Chronicle
One of the most intelligent crime-thrillers to come along in years.
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88
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Above all, the dialogue is complex enough to allow the characters to say what they're thinking: They are eloquent, insightful, fanciful, poetic when necessary. They're not trapped with cliches.
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88
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Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
A love-hate poem to L.A., and when Mann takes in the streets, the freeways and LAX, he doesn't give us shiny "Lethal Weapon"-style travelogues. He shows us an L.A. that's grim, bare, a bit smoggy and ruled by street smarts. [15 Dec 1995]
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88
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
No, the film may not be quite as luminous as the cast, but it's good - very good, in fact.
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80
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TV Guide
It didn't sound like fun to us, either, but we were wrong; Heat scores on many fronts...The plot, though it seems to ramble, builds suspense with deft precision, and the action set pieces are triumphs.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
It's a monster of a movie, and it gets unwieldy.
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67
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
We're not watching McCauley and Hanna anymore; we're watching De Niro and Pacino trying to out-insinuate each other. For a few moments, Heat truly has some.
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50
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Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The performances are persuasive but the plot rattles on much too long.
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50
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San Francisco Examiner
There isn't much to recommend this movie until Pacino and De Niro finally share the first of their two scenes together.
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50
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
I lost track of how many times I checked my watch during the nearly three interminable hours it took Heat to play itself to a predictable conclusion of a chase scene and a shoot-out.
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