Catch Me If You Can (2002)

All Critics (194) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (192) | Rotten (8) | DVD (33)

This is the director's most likeable film in ages, even if it's insubstantial, overlong and, frankly, a touch redundant.

June 24, 2006 Full Review

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Top Critic

DiCaprio has the breeze and aplomb to keep it all bouncing along.

January 16, 2003 | Comment (1)

Stanley Kauffmann

The New Republic

Top Critic

Breezily enjoyable but thin.

January 16, 2003 Full Review | Comment (1)

Peter Rainer

New York Magazine

Top Critic

A delicious cat-and-mouse game flecked with intriguing Oedipal undertones.

January 14, 2003 | Comments (2)

David Ansen

Newsweek

Top Critic

A gently funny, sweetly adventurous film that makes you feel genuinely good, that is to say, entirely unconned by false sentiment or sharp, overmanipulative Hollywood practices.

January 13, 2003 Full Review | Comment (1)

Richard Schickel

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

Catch Me if You Can is one of those deceptively slight offerings that manages to reveal more about its maker than the intended masterpieces often do.

January 10, 2003 Full Review

Ben Schwartz

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Paramount catches up with Spielberg's magnificently paced, maddeningly wrong-headed manhunt comedy on Blu-ray with a bold, beautiful A/V transfer and a stash of slight extras.

December 5, 2012 Full Review

Chris Cabin

Slant Magazine

It's a movie entertainment, after all, and Spielberg doesn't intend it to project the authenticity of a 'Lincoln.' (Blu-ray edition)

November 28, 2012 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

I don't think anyone would argue that 'Catch Me If You Can' is one of Spielberg's best films. However, it is good enough and passes a pleasant couple of hours.

November 28, 2012 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Excellent account of FBI's youngest Most Wanted.

December 22, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

To those who have said in the past that Spielberg, my hero, has lost it as a filmmaker, here's mud in your eye.

April 29, 2009 Full Review | Comments (2)

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

This amiably light-footed chase gets the job done.

February 1, 2009 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

The movie is a good time. It not only produces happiness, it is happy.

September 24, 2007 Full Review | Comment (1)

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

a future classic

April 11, 2006

Stefan Birgir Stefansson

sbs.is

The movie is -- intentionally or otherwise -- a remarkable parable about denying reality until reality catches up to you.

January 15, 2005

Jeffrey Overstreet

Looking Closer

Has Steven Spielberg lost it?

October 7, 2004 Full Review | Comments (20)

Tony Medley

tonymedley.com

...the film would've been vastly improved had it been trimmed down to 90 minutes.

August 21, 2004 Full Review | Comment (1)

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

The stylish, cartoon-like opening credits reminded me of the snazzy beginnings of the Peter Sellers-Pink Panther movies.

June 23, 2004 Full Review

Judith Egerton

Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

One of Spielberg's finest pieces of storytelling. Helps make up for A.I.

December 21, 2003 | Comment (1)

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

Steven Spielberg's new film is lighthearted and enjoyable, with just enough undercurrents of human frailty to keep the story interesting.

October 7, 2003 Full Review | Comment (1)

David Foucher

EDGE Boston

Catch Me if You Can is an incisive parable about faking it, made by America's greatest movie artists, Hollywood titans all.

September 13, 2003 Full Review

Howard Karren

Premiere Magazine

It's Spielberg who pulls the con by leading us down a familiar path only to rup the rug out from under us.

July 16, 2003 Full Review

Michael Drakulich

Star Newspapers (Chicago, IL)

Spielberg. . .supersedes even himself with one of the most enjoyable and compelling films of his career.

June 11, 2003 Full Review | Comment (1)

Todd Gilchrist

FilmStew.com

• 1. Frank Abagnale Jr.: Leave me alone.
  2. Carl Hanratty: I can't, It's my job.
  – Submitted by Siddharth K (4 months ago)
• 1. Frank Abagnale Jr.: My name is Frank Abagnale. Not Abagnalee not Abagnaylee but Abagnale!
  – Submitted by Siddharth K (4 months ago)
• 1. Frank Abagnale Jr.: Merry Christmas Carl!!
  – Submitted by Siddharth K (4 months ago)
• 1. Carl Hanratty: You walk out of that door, they are going to kill you.
  – Submitted by Siddharth K (4 months ago)
• 1. Carl Hanratty: You have no one else to call.
  – Submitted by Siddharth K (4 months ago)
• 1. Carl Hanratty: Tell me Frank How did you cheat in the bar exam?
  2. Frank Abagnale Jr.: I didn't cheat, I studied for two weeks and I passed.
  – Submitted by Siddharth K (4 months ago)

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