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The Iceman Reviews

Dave Calhoun
Time Out
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Even the always-watchable Shannon can't give much life to Kuklinski's two-dimensional presence: he's little more than a series of murders and pained looks.

Full Review Source: Time Out | Original Score: 3/5

June 4, 2013
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
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Shannon gets at his character's pent-up torment as well as his efficient disconnect. When his two worlds start to converge -- on his daughter's sweet 16th birthday, no less -- you feel for him.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | Original Score: 3/4

May 17, 2013
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
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A true-crime thriller directed with grit, gristle and punchy energy by Ariel Vromen, The Iceman is never less than fascinating, even if things get a little ham-fisted here and there.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | Original Score: 3/4

May 17, 2013
Adam Graham
Detroit News
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As the body count mounts, the movie begins to spin out of control, but Shannon and Vromen don't let it derail. Their focus keep things from melting down.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | Original Score: B

May 17, 2013
Adam Nayman
Globe and Mail
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Michael Shannon is an overpowering actor, and in The Iceman, the best that he can do is wrestle the movie around him to a stalemate.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Original Score: 2/4

May 17, 2013
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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It's a fascinating subject - the beast that lurks inside the family man - but the movie blows it.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Original Score: 2/4

May 16, 2013
Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times
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It's often mesmerizing, primarily for Shannon's performance as a man who's a master of compartmentalizing ...

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | Original Score: 3/4

May 16, 2013
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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It's as if one of the sideline characters from "Goodfellas" or "The Godfather" starred in his own spinoff.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | Original Score: 3/4

May 16, 2013
John Anderson
Newsday
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As both violent drama and character study, Israeli director Ariel Vromen's film does everything it should.

Full Review Source: Newsday | Original Score: 3/4

May 16, 2013
Ben Sachs
Chicago Reader
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This biopic sounds like a perfect vehicle for Shannon, who's come to specialize in playing psychopaths, but it doesn't give him much to work with.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

May 16, 2013
Bill Goodykoontz
Arizona Republic
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Why would anyone want to watch something so determinedly downbeat, so unerringly serious? Because of the performances, Shannon's in particular.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | Original Score: 4/5

May 16, 2013

Toronto Star
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The script ... offers few insights into Kuklinski's psychic makeup or motivations and even less reason to care about them.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Original Score: 2/4

May 16, 2013
Joe Williams
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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While Hollywood keeps coughing up comedies and thrillers about sympathetic hitmen, the true story dramatized in "The Iceman" should bury those noxious fantasies forever.

Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Original Score: 3/4

May 16, 2013
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
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Just when you think you've seen enough of these wiseguys, along comes a story like Kuklinski's, and an actor like Shannon.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Original Score: 3/4

May 16, 2013
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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The Iceman offers a chronological view into the life of its title protagonist... and what a life it is.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | Original Score: 3/4

May 5, 2013
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
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There's not much style here, beyond the uniformly good acting, and even less of a point.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | Original Score: 2/4

May 3, 2013
Betsy Sharkey
Los Angeles Times
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"The Iceman's" problem rests instead with the script, which the director wrote with Morgan Land, his collaborator on the "Rx" screenplay. It never gets underneath Kuklinski's skin in a way that illuminates the psychosis.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Original Score: 2/5

May 2, 2013
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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Michael Shannon's mesmerizing portrayal of Richard Kuklinski, a notorious contract killer, has the paradoxical quality, peculiar to many great screen performances, of being unreadable and transparent.

Full Review Source: New York Times | Original Score: 5/5

May 2, 2013
Dana Stevens
Slate
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Shannon inhabits this character so completely that by the end of this hard-to-watch, hard-to-look-away-from movie you feel you can, if not understand Richie, at least wish he had found some redemption in life.

Full Review Source: Slate

May 2, 2013
Claudia Puig
USA Today
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Shannon is brilliantly unnerving as he callously dispenses with people, then returns home to maintain his façade of a loving husband and father.

Full Review Source: USA Today | Original Score: 3/4

May 2, 2013
Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News
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Michael Shannon moves through "The Iceman" like a shark.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Original Score: 4/5

May 2, 2013
Richard Corliss
TIME Magazine
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Shannon could be looking at an Oscar nomination. His performance is that stone-cold good.

Full Review Source: TIME Magazine

May 2, 2013
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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A sketchy, flatly directed biopic based on one of the most compelling true crime stories out of New Jersey ...

Full Review Source: New York Post | Original Score: 2/4

May 2, 2013
Chris Nashawaty
Entertainment Weekly
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With his chiseled-from-granite brow and harrowing, coiled-spring intensity, Michael Shannon is one of those actors who can make just about any movie interesting. And he has his work cut out for him in The Iceman ...

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Original Score: B-

May 1, 2013
Rex Reed
New York Observer
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Michael Shannon is so fascinating that I was honestly rooting for him to survive. The point of The Iceman is "Even monsters are human," but it takes a great actor to make a dubious theme convincing.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | Original Score: 3/4

May 1, 2013
Keith Uhlich
Time Out New York
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This is a wise-guy opera with barely one memorable aria.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Original Score: 2/5

April 30, 2013
Rebecca Moss
Village Voice
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Shannon gives an unnerving performance as a man caged in a cruel apathy, maintaining a controlled façade that seems to twitch with barely sublimated distress.

Full Review Source: Village Voice

April 30, 2013
Justin Chang
Variety
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A finely chiseled thriller that reflects the cold-blooded efficiency of its murderous subject in every frame and detai

Full Review Source: Variety

April 29, 2013
David Rooney
Hollywood Reporter
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The redoubtable Michael Shannon leads a superb cast in Ariel Vromen's compelling portrait of New Jersey career criminal Richard Kuklinski.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter

September 18, 2012
Laremy Legel
Film.com
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A nagging question looms over the entire endeavor: Do you care?

Full Review Source: Film.com | Original Score: C-

September 12, 2012
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