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The Friends of Eddie Coyle sees Robert Mitchum in transformative late-career mode in a gritty and credible character study.
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A very fine film about real people on the fringes of both crime and law enforcement. Mar 26, 2009 | Full Review…
A very fine film about real people on the fringes of both crime and law enforcement.
Variety Staff
The cast lend the film an authority that Yates' curiously pedestrian approach fails to provide. Jan 26, 2006 | Full Review…
The cast lend the film an authority that Yates' curiously pedestrian approach fails to provide.
Paul Taylor
A good, tough, unsentimental movie about the last days of a small-time Boston hood. May 9, 2005 | Full Review…
A good, tough, unsentimental movie about the last days of a small-time Boston hood.
Vincent Canby
A daft and insightful look at the gray world between criminal and straight. May 3, 2003 | Full Review…
A daft and insightful look at the gray world between criminal and straight.
Don Druker
Director Peter Yates' backdrops of the working-class outskirts of Boston during the shabbiest part of the 1970s are unparalleled. Jan 2, 2018 | Full Review…
Director Peter Yates' backdrops of the working-class outskirts of Boston during the shabbiest part of the 1970s are unparalleled.
Richard von Busack
A bit gruesome, but potent viewing nonetheless. Aug 14, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
A bit gruesome, but potent viewing nonetheless.
Chilling gangster melodrama. Aug 14, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Chilling gangster melodrama.
Sky Staff
In a quality cast, Peter Boyle stands out as the hitman and so-called "friend" who's given the job of eliminating Mitchum. Aug 14, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
In a quality cast, Peter Boyle stands out as the hitman and so-called "friend" who's given the job of eliminating Mitchum.
Tom Hutchinson
The best Boston movie evah. Aug 5, 2017 | Full Review…
The best Boston movie evah.
Sean Burns
Robert Mitchum brings late-career gravitas to this brilliant Boston-set crime thriller. Feb 2, 2016 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Robert Mitchum brings late-career gravitas to this brilliant Boston-set crime thriller.
Lewis Porteous
[An] un-romanticized portrayal of organized crime ... In Coyle, the heists don't go according to plan, the gun dealers are teenagers or junkies, and mob hits are messy affairs. Apr 28, 2015 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
[An] un-romanticized portrayal of organized crime ... In Coyle, the heists don't go according to plan, the gun dealers are teenagers or junkies, and mob hits are messy affairs.
Austin Trunick
Deep weariness and disappointment hover in every gesture and line reading, especially when [Robert Mitchum] manages to get off a funny remark Nov 17, 2013 | Full Review…
Deep weariness and disappointment hover in every gesture and line reading, especially when [Robert Mitchum] manages to get off a funny remark
Geoffrey O'Brien
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