Review: Donnie Brasco
Norman Mailer told us tough guys don't dance, but in the movies, it's mostly tough guys who do dance. We're so leery of close emotional bonds ...
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert - 02/27/97
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Review: DONNIE BRASCO
The NY Times review of Donnie Brasco, a Mike Newell film starring Johnny Depp and Al Pacino. Donnie Brasco movie trailer, showtimes, ...
The New York Times - Janet Maslin - 02/28/97
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Review: Donnie Brasco
Despite the mafia theme (we've been there) and the casting of Al Pacino as a mobster (boy, has this godfather ever been there), Donnie Brasco is ...
Rolling Stone - Editorial Review
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Review: Donnie Brasco
Al Pacino in a Mafia movie feels as natural as peanut butter with jelly. Mike Newell, the director of such popular British comedies as Enchanted ...
Reelviews - James Berardinelli
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Review: DONNIE BRASCO
Perhaps the freshest gangster movie since THE GODFATHER, PART II, as well as the glummest. FBI agent Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp) infiltrates the mob ...
TV Guide - Maitland McDonagh
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Review: Donnie Brasco
Stark and beautiful opening credits are a harbinger of good movie moments to come. Donnie Brasco is an involving real-life story of an FBI ...
Palo Alto Online - Jeanne Aufmuth
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DONNIE BRASCO Film Review
When Lefty Ruggiero (Al Pacino), a sad-sack minor-league mobster, gets time away from his kiss-ass duties to the wiseguys, he likes to slump in ...
Boxoffice Online - Bridget Byrne
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Review: Donnie Brasco
As if setting out to disprove the commonly-held theory that only Martin Scorsese can make based-on-fact tales of corruption and betrayal with a ...
Empire Online - Kim Newman
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Review: Donnie Brasco
Well, someone had to wrest the monopoly on gangster movies from the hands of Scorsese and Coppola. So why not Mike Newell, of Four Weddings and a ...
FilmCritic.com - Christopher Null
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Review: DONNIE BRASCO (1997)
Starring: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, Anne Heche. Screenplay: Paul Attanasio, based on the book by Joseph D. Pistone. ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Scott Renshaw - 02/28/97
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Review: DONNIE BRASCO (1997)
Does the world need another mob movie? Do we still have the blood lust for Mafia minutia? Are there any actors left who can carry on the Godfather ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Steve Rhodes - 02/28/97
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Review: DONNIE BRASCO (1997)
DONNIE BRASCO(1997) *** 1/4 Directed by Mike Newell. Screenplay by Paul Attanasio, based on the book by Joseph D.Pistone with Richard Woodley. ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Edwin Jahiel - 03/18/97
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Review: Donnie Brasco (1997)
There's no reason to doubt that DONNIE BRASCO is based, as its opening credits proclaim, on a True Story. But if it's an accurate picture of life ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Geoff Gloster - 02/11/98
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Review: Donnie Brasco (1997)
Ever since "GoodFellas" burst into movie screens in 1990, there has been a renaissance of gangster pictures. The difference between the gangsters ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Jerry Saravia - 06/21/04
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Review: DONNIE BRASCO (1997)
The setting is New York City, 1978. Lefty Ruggiero (played by Al Pacino) is one of this country's countless semi-failures, able to get by just ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Mark R. Leeper
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Review: DONNIE BRASCO (1997)
Producers: Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson, Louis DiGiaimo, Gail Mutrux Screenplay: Paul Attanasio based on the book DONNIE BRASCO: MY UNDERCOVER ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - James Berardinelli - 02/28/97
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Review: Donnie Brasco (1997)
From early 1970s onwards Coppola was often being accused of creating unrealistic and almost apologetic vision of Mafia in his GODFATHER movies. ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Dragan Antulov - 08/26/03
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Review: DONNIE BRASCO (1997)
Donnie Brasco is the undercover name of Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp), an FBI agent who goes undercover in the mob to gather information. ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Marty Mapes - 03/18/97
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Review: DONNIE BRASCO (1997)
More than 20 years ago, Al Pacino gained his fame by starring in the first two GODFATHER films. Now he's returned to those roots by playing a ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Andrew Hicks - 03/18/97
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Review: Donnie Brasco (1997)
Mettant en vedette Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen crit par Paul Attanasio Produit par Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson, Louis DiGiaimo, ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Phil St-Germain - 08/11/97
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Review: DONNIE BRASCO (1997)
If you are going to make still another film about the mafia, there had better be another angle. DONNIE BRASCO, fortunately, has just that in the ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Ben Hoffman - 03/10/97
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Review: DONNIE BRASCO (1997)
The cinematic talents of Al Pacino have reached new heights with 'Donnie Brasco'. Pacino has played a criminal many times in his career and from ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Walter Frith
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Review: Donnie Brasco (1997)
This is a truly excellent film. Everyone in the movie has a very good showing, but for me Al Pacino's is most notable -- I tend to dislike his ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - John Roberdeau
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Review: DONNIE BRASCO (1997)
In the late seventies, the FBI was determined to bring down the mob and sent one of their own into the middle of it, underground with little ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Michael Redman
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Review: Donnie Brasco
In Donnie Brasco you see a compelling performance from Johnny Depp. He brings Joe Pistone and Donnie Brasco to life with his intense screen ...
Boxoffice Online - Anonymous
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