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Its top-shelf script and terrific cast ensure that it's always watchable, but Phil Spector fails to provide truly compelling drama.
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Even with a Mamet screenplay and actors like Mr. Pacino and Ms. Mirren there is not much anyone can do to make the audience care. May 22, 2013 | Full Review…
Even with a Mamet screenplay and actors like Mr. Pacino and Ms. Mirren there is not much anyone can do to make the audience care.
Alessandra Stanley
It's better than most films of its kind, even as it remains unsatisfying as historical re-creation, philosophical meditation or pure drama. May 22, 2013 | Full Review…
It's better than most films of its kind, even as it remains unsatisfying as historical re-creation, philosophical meditation or pure drama.
Robert Lloyd
Pacino and Mirren's teamwork keeps Phil Spector watchable even when it's dousing itself in dramatic ethanol and lighting a match. May 22, 2013 | Full Review…
Pacino and Mirren's teamwork keeps Phil Spector watchable even when it's dousing itself in dramatic ethanol and lighting a match.
Matt Zoller Seitz
The film is an engrossing drama, with a dazzling performance by Al Pacino in the title role. May 22, 2013 | Full Review…
The film is an engrossing drama, with a dazzling performance by Al Pacino in the title role.
Tom Conroy
It's an insidious whitewash of a convicted killer and an infamous smear of his victim. It's a shame on all involved. May 22, 2013
It's an insidious whitewash of a convicted killer and an infamous smear of his victim. It's a shame on all involved.
Glenn Garvin
A frustrating film that leaves the questions -- pretty much all of them -- unanswered. May 22, 2013 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
A frustrating film that leaves the questions -- pretty much all of them -- unanswered.
Verne Gay
Victims' rights groups have openly worried that the movie will call into question the nineteen-year sentence Spector received... They needn't worry. The film is no challenge to anything except the careers of those involved with it. Oct 17, 2018 | Full Review…
Victims' rights groups have openly worried that the movie will call into question the nineteen-year sentence Spector received... They needn't worry. The film is no challenge to anything except the careers of those involved with it.
Stephen Marche
Spector is almost the platonic ideal of the crazy showbiz madman. He makes a great fit for Pacino, who has for once found a character so charismatically odd that he doesn't need to overact to keep himself interested. Jul 13, 2017 | Full Review…
Spector is almost the platonic ideal of the crazy showbiz madman. He makes a great fit for Pacino, who has for once found a character so charismatically odd that he doesn't need to overact to keep himself interested.
John Powers
Mamet's film isn't sure what the hell to make of Spector. But, strangely, that's part of what makes it so compelling. Jun 21, 2016 | Full Review…
Mamet's film isn't sure what the hell to make of Spector. But, strangely, that's part of what makes it so compelling.
Jason Bailey
The movie broadens from Spector's legal case into larger explorations of prejudices people can harbor about celebrities and eccentrics. The result is a thoughtful, sometimes fascinating, purposefully inconclusive character study. May 28, 2013
The movie broadens from Spector's legal case into larger explorations of prejudices people can harbor about celebrities and eccentrics. The result is a thoughtful, sometimes fascinating, purposefully inconclusive character study.
Carla Meyer
Pacino seldom fails to cut straight to the soul of a character who is both brilliant and pathetic. May 24, 2013 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Pacino seldom fails to cut straight to the soul of a character who is both brilliant and pathetic.
Al Alexander
As we're treated to another nonsensical, repetitive soliloquy about the victimization of a violent millionaire, it's worth noting that the Wall of Sound required an echo chamber. May 22, 2013
As we're treated to another nonsensical, repetitive soliloquy about the victimization of a violent millionaire, it's worth noting that the Wall of Sound required an echo chamber.
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