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Movie ID: 1475
RT slug: heat_1995
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/heat_1995
Release year: 1995
Runtime: 170 mins
Wide release date: 1995-12-15
Limited release date: —
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: 2015-11-19
Tomatometer final: 84%
Audience score final: 94%
Genres: Crime, Drama
Directors: Michael Mann
Writers: Michael Mann
Producers: Art Linson, Michael Mann
MPAA rating: R
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-10-13 23:17:04
Updated: 2026-10-13 23:17:04
Master criminal Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) is trying to control the rogue actions of one of his men, while also planning one last big heist before retiring. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Hanna (Al Pacino) attempts to track down McCauley as he deals with the chaos in his own life, including the infidelity of his wife (Diane Venora) and the mental health of his stepdaughter (Natalie Portman). McCauley and Hanna discover a mutual respect, even as they try to thwart each other's plans.
Though Al Pacino and Robert De Niro share but a handful of screen minutes together, Heat is an engrossing crime drama that draws compelling performances from its stars -- and confirms Michael Mann's mastery of the genre.
Canonical reviews: 157
Canonical fresh: 132
Canonical rotten: 25
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 157 (132/25), 84% (84.076% raw)
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-10-16 18:07:41
Snapshot Tomatometer: 84%
Snapshot review count: 157
Snapshot fresh count: 132
Snapshot rotten count: 25
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #4691 (full_snapshot)
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| New Regency Productions | production |
| Regency Enterprises | production |
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| 1 | Al Pacino | Lt. Vincent Hanna |
| 2 | Robert De Niro | Neil McCauley |
| 3 | Val Kilmer | Chris Shiherlis |
| 4 | Jon Voight | Nate |
| 5 | Tom Sizemore | Michael Cheritto |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 290591 | Don Shanahan | Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast | Fresh | — | 2026-08-12T15:23:27.000Z | 2026-08-12 15:23:27 | Simply one of the best and sharpest crime films of its decade, era, and century. Movies don't get more taut than this. |
| 290592 | Sacha Molitorisz | Sydney Morning Herald | Fresh | — | 2026-04-29T23:07:44.000Z | 2026-04-29 23:07:44 | Heat remains an oft-sizzling thriller. |
| 290593 | Max Copeman | Radio Times | Fresh | 5/5 | 2026-03-31T16:49:13.000Z | 2026-03-31 16:49:13 | With Christopher Nolan among the many film-makers to cite Heat as an inspiration, it enjoys the enviable legacy of being always admired, often imitated, but never bettered. |
| 290594 | James D. Williams | InSession Film | Fresh | A | 2025-12-19T15:06:22.000Z | 2025-12-19 15:06:22 | This movie is a crown jewel in the crime drama hall of fame. |
| 290595 | Radheyan Simonpillai | Guardian | Fresh | — | 2025-12-16T19:57:05.000Z | 2025-12-16 19:57:05 | Heat ticks along on the dueling performances from Pacino and De Niro, the former’s blustery swagger a stark contrast to the cool, carefully curated composure of the latter. Those kinds of competing notes could be found and savoured across the movie. |
| 290596 | Noah Gittell | Washington City Paper | Fresh | — | 2025-07-03T17:07:33.000Z | 2025-07-03 17:07:33 | The plotting in Heat is immaculate. |
| 290597 | Justin Brown | Medium Popcorn | Fresh | 5/5 | 2025-05-09T14:07:29.000Z | 2025-05-09 14:07:29 | This is one of the best crime films of all time for a reason. |
| 290598 | Brandon Collins | Medium Popcorn | Fresh | 5/5 | 2025-05-09T14:06:52.000Z | 2025-05-09 14:06:52 | This is a crime classic. Between the cinematography, incredibly performances, Mann's attention to detail, and the pacing, this is a home run. |
| 290599 | Geoff Brown | The Times (UK) | Fresh | — | 2023-12-21T00:54:50.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:54:50 | Stripped to its bones, Heat may sound trite. But Mann puts so much flesh on his characters that you never feel hungry. |
| 290600 | Jonathan Romney | Guardian | Fresh | — | 2023-12-21T00:54:16.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:54:16 | Like Kubrick, Mann takes a genre premise that seems like no big deal, and expands it into a cosmos of its own. Heat might simply be the most spectacular B-movie ever made, but that’s impressive enough. |
| 290601 | Rick Groen | Globe and Mail | Fresh | — | 2023-12-21T00:53:40.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:53:40 | Dream match-ups on paper don't always succeed on the screen -- like twin fires fighting for oxygen, will they merely cancel each other out? Hardly. This is one titanic clash that actually lives up to the billing. |
| 290602 | Roger Ebert | Chicago Sun-Times | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2023-12-21T00:53:02.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:53:02 | Above all, the dialogue is complex enough to allow the characters to say what they're thinking: They are eloquent, insightful, fanciful, poetic when necessary. They're not trapped with clichés. |
| 290603 | Mike Davies | Birmingham Post | Fresh | — | 2023-12-21T00:50:03.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:50:03 | Heat is a giant of a film, a god among American crime thrillers… Masterpiece is an overused term. Here it barely comes close. |
| 290604 | Tom Long | Santa Cruz Sentinel | Fresh | A | 2023-12-21T00:48:47.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:48:47 | Mann has produced the best crime epic since Goodfellas and one of the best films of the year, an absolute must-see for anyone who likes good (heck, great) acting and modern cinema. |
| 290605 | Manohla Dargis | L.A. Weekly | Rotten | — | 2023-12-21T00:48:07.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:48:07 | At its core it's actually about virtuosity... and, by extension, the virtuosity of Mann himself, of which there's no short supply. Too bad it's running on empty; if the film weren't so hollow it would be a masterpiece. |
| 290606 | Harper Barnes | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Fresh | — | 2023-12-21T00:43:21.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:43:21 | Time and again, Heat veers sharply out of the groove worn by a thousand other movies. As I said, it's not an ordinary movie -- indeed, it's an extraordinary one, with compelling performances, a fascinating mix of characters and a riveting story line. |
| 290607 | John Wrathall | Sight & Sound | Fresh | — | 2023-12-21T00:41:04.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:41:04 | There's not a boring building in the film. Mann is the best director of architecture since Antonioni. In fact, few film-makers at work today can rival Mann's control of every detail of the film-making process. |
| 290608 | Rene Jordan | El Nuevo Herald (Miami) | Rotten | — | 2023-12-21T00:37:18.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:37:18 | A film with so many possibilities that it ends up as split cake between Bob and Val. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 290609 | William Arnold | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Rotten | — | 2023-12-21T00:34:25.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:34:25 | Both stars have their share of dynamic moments, and, gosh knows, there's plenty of explosive action. But it's a long sit, and by the time the excruciatingly drawn-out climax comes to its end, you're more than ready to head for the exits. |
| 290610 | Jay Carr | Boston Globe | Fresh | — | 2023-12-21T00:31:02.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:31:02 | Flaws notwithstanding, you've got to salute the size and richness and technical dazzle that sustain Mann's impressive vision. |
| 290611 | Peter Keough | Boston Phoenix | Fresh | — | 2023-12-21T00:28:10.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:28:10 | The Martin Scorsese film we've been looking forward to this year is by Michael Mann. Had it been about half an hour and three or four subplots shorter it might have been on the level of Goodfellas. As it is, it's as long as Casino but far more engrossing. |
| 290612 | Rene Rodriguez | Miami Herald | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-12-21T00:26:21.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:26:21 | Heat is icier than it is fiery, though as this movie proves, ice too can burn. It’s a simple cops-and-robbers tale writ larger than life by its powerhouse cast and by writer-director Michael Mann, who refuses to play by the rules of the form. |
| 290613 | Jack Mathews | Newsday | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-12-21T00:24:31.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:24:31 | It is huge commercial grandstanding by all involved, and will satisfy no one hoping for a mano-a-mano acting clinic. But hey, it could have been Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. |
| 290614 | Mark Jenkins | Washington City Paper | Rotten | — | 2023-12-21T00:21:57.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:21:57 | Heat may be something different for Mann, but in the larger context of Hollywood it’s mostly more of the same. |
| 290615 | Jason Margolis | Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) | Fresh | — | 2023-12-21T00:17:30.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:17:30 | It is this attention to detail and character development that enriches this film to a higher level and may also bore your typical action film fan to tears. |
| 290616 | Steve Persall | Tampa Bay Times | Rotten | C | 2023-12-21T00:07:56.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:07:56 | Pacino and De Niro don't need gunpowder to heat up a screen, just something more inspiring than Heat. Those guys should make a movie together sometime. |
| 290617 | Terry Lawson | Detroit Free Press | Fresh | 4/4 | 2023-12-21T00:06:13.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:06:13 | Mann understands what too many directors, impressed by their credentials, do not; when Pacino and De Niro talk, the audience listens. We don't need to be browbeaten. Mann extends that respect for all of Heat. |
| 290618 | Thelma Adams | New York Post | Rotten | — | 2023-12-21T00:03:55.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:03:55 | Occasionally, Heat rises to the level of good slush TV, but when Mann succumbs to De Niro and Pacino worship and takes himself too seriously, the results are lukewarm. |
| 290619 | Amy Taubin | Village Voice | Fresh | — | 2023-12-21T00:01:20.000Z | 2023-12-21 00:01:20 | The splendid visuals aside, Heat is a cosmically silly movie -- which doesn't make it any less entertaining. Mann manages to have his romance of obsessed masculinity and send it up too. |
| 290620 | Barbara Vancheri | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2023-12-20T23:57:12.000Z | 2023-12-20 23:57:12 | Pacino is at the top of his game, exploding one minute, bursting into song the next, chomping on the gum he's perpetually chewing. De Niro is, by contrast, tightly coiled and focused, a man who can't let a debt or a slight go unanswered. |
| 290621 | Jeff Simon | Buffalo News | Fresh | 4/4 | 2023-12-20T23:51:39.000Z | 2023-12-20 23:51:39 | It's a long ride, with a few bumps and longueurs, but the vehicle is a Porsche 930 and it hums, it really hums. |
| 290622 | Rob Salem | Toronto Star | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-12-20T23:49:36.000Z | 2023-12-20 23:49:36 | We are being asked to spend inordinate amounts of our time sitting through a single movie... Be that as it may, and much as I hate to encourage this sort of thing, I cannot come up with a single second of Heat that I could have done without. |
| 290623 | Bob Campbell | Newhouse News Service | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-12-20T23:38:42.000Z | 2023-12-20 23:38:42 | The film's lofty fatalism represents a triumph of aesthetics over experience -- existential romanticism with a vengeance. |
| 290624 | Lawrence Toppman | Charlotte Observer | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2023-12-20T23:34:10.000Z | 2023-12-20 23:34:10 | Using [Al Pacino and Robert De Niro] this way is like tuning up a Maserati so it can be the pace car in a Thanksgiving Day parade. |
| 290625 | Michael H. Price | Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2023-12-20T22:52:35.000Z | 2023-12-20 22:52:35 | Heat is overlong at 180 minutes, but it justifies the indulgence with a relentless pace and a wealth of fine acting. |
| 290626 | Jack Garner | Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | Fresh | 9/10 | 2023-12-20T22:50:31.000Z | 2023-12-20 22:50:31 | A film of this scope and length might not have sustained its tension with lesser actors. Pacino and De Niro are the high-octane fuel that keeps Heat on the move. |
| 290627 | Dennis King | Tulsa World | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-12-20T22:40:50.000Z | 2023-12-20 22:40:50 | De Niro and Pacino light up the screen when they're on. And although Heat is largely overheated, it's a fascinating and worthy effort at investing the action genre with the kind of texture and character it seldom possesses. |
| 290628 | Malcolm L. Johnson | Hartford Courant | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2023-12-20T22:11:59.000Z | 2023-12-20 22:11:59 | Because of its stars, Heat bears watching, even though Mann has unwisely tried to make an epic that runs on and on. |
| 290629 | Sean P. Means | Salt Lake Tribune | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-12-20T21:57:41.000Z | 2023-12-20 21:57:41 | Cops and robbers have seldom been as stylish, as engrossing or as long as Heat. |
| 290630 | Gary Wolcott | Tri-City Herald | Fresh | 5/5 | 2023-12-20T02:00:32.000Z | 2023-12-20 02:00:32 | Heat is a classic cops-and-robbers story that's cranked up a notch or two. It's long but not overcooked. |
| 290631 | Bob Ross | Tampa Tribune | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2023-12-20T01:58:12.000Z | 2023-12-20 01:58:12 | With its taut dialogue, spectacular stunt sequences, masterful cast and compelling cinematography, Heat smolders like a sizzling fuse en route to a cataclysmic blast. |
| 290632 | Hugo Davenport | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Fresh | — | 2023-12-20T01:23:36.000Z | 2023-12-20 01:23:36 | This is a movie with the makings of a classic -- a tough criminal yarn which has the muscular intelligence of a Howard Hawks picture, updated through the greater depth and weight accorded to its female characters. |
| 290633 | Nigel Andrews | Financial Times | Rotten | — | 2023-12-20T01:15:57.000Z | 2023-12-20 01:15:57 | Michael Mann's Heat raises an old question about Hollywood aesthetics. Does banality improve with grandiloquence? Or do fancy sounds and gestures make the trite triter? |
| 290634 | Jeff Strickler | Minneapolis Star Tribune | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2023-12-20T00:49:45.000Z | 2023-12-20 00:49:45 | Every time Al Pacino and Robert De Niro try to light a fire under Heat, writer-director-producer Michael Mann dumps water on them. |
| 290635 | Bill Brownstein | Montreal Gazette | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-12-20T00:47:53.000Z | 2023-12-20 00:47:53 | It's called acting. And it can elevate a simple cops-and-robbers tale into an electrifying film experience. The film is called Heat. And, appropriately, its stars generate enough Heat to steam up a sauna. |
| 290636 | Bruce R. Miller | Sioux City Journal | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-12-20T00:31:19.000Z | 2023-12-20 00:31:19 | The truth be known, it's a two-man show. Remove everyone but Pacino and De Niro and Heat still sizzles. |
| 290637 | Eleanor O'Sullivan | Asbury Park Press (NJ) | Fresh | 4/4 | 2023-12-20T00:27:05.000Z | 2023-12-20 00:27:05 | The scenario is been-there, done-that, but it feels invigorating and fresh. With this movie, Mann confirms he's the best American director of action films with a real human pull. |
| 290638 | John Scalzi | Fresno Bee | Fresh | B+ | 2023-12-20T00:22:51.000Z | 2023-12-20 00:22:51 | The climactic bank robbery in downtown Los Angeles is an action sequence for the record books. It is so gargantuan in scope and so skillfully choreographed and shot that it is literally breathtaking. |
| 290639 | Tom Ryan | The Sunday Age | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-12-20T00:20:15.000Z | 2023-12-20 00:20:15 | There's nothing new in any of this, but Mann's kinetic merging of image and sound launches the predigested characters and the clichéd dramatics into another sphere. Heat throbs with the rhythms of a primitive ritual. |
| 290640 | Rob Lowing | The Sun-Herald (Australia) | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-12-20T00:15:08.000Z | 2023-12-20 00:15:08 | It speaks volumes about the sublime performances of De Niro and Kilmer: for most of this finger-curlingly tense heist flick, you're rooting for the bad guys. |
| 290641 | Peter Galvin | Sydney Morning Herald | Fresh | — | 2023-12-20T00:13:20.000Z | 2023-12-20 00:13:20 | In Mann's intricate, sprawling screenplay, he tells a story that stretches way beyond the film's nominal subject matter and catches something deep and elemental. |
| 290642 | Adrian Martin | The Age (Australia) | Rotten | — | 2023-12-20T00:04:57.000Z | 2023-12-20 00:04:57 | Although there is much that is impressive and pleasurable in this film, it left me somewhat disappointed. Mann's determination to forge an epic, almost three hours' long, leads him to stretch the script thin. |
| 290643 | Graham Young | Birmingham Mail | Fresh | 4/4 | 2023-12-20T00:02:14.000Z | 2023-12-20 00:02:14 | When De Niro and Pacino finally do meet head to head, the only ingredients are a cup of coffee each and a mighty fine script. The result is the perfect finishing touch to a masterpiece already given real depth by its additional female perspectives. |
| 290644 | Eleanor Ringel Cater | Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2023-12-20T00:00:15.000Z | 2023-12-20 00:00:15 | Baby, somebody light this fire. Heat is an incoherent, overlong zero that lasts almost three hours. |
| 290645 | Jackie Newton | Liverpool Echo | Fresh | 5/5 | 2023-12-19T23:51:43.000Z | 2023-12-19 23:51:43 | One one level, it is an all-out tribute to testosterone. A searing slice of machismo... Yet there are frequent thoughtful pace changes which add to the entertainment value and build the tension. |
| 290646 | Linda Cook | Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2023-12-19T23:44:39.000Z | 2023-12-19 23:44:39 | De Niro and Pacino are scorchers in Heat. |
| 290647 | Adam Mars-Jones | Independent (UK) | Rotten | — | 2023-12-19T23:35:33.000Z | 2023-12-19 23:35:33 | Perhaps a film nearly three hours long needs more tonal variety, and perhaps a film whose genre is the thriller shouldn't indulge in so much atmosphere if the result is to neutralise excitement in advance. |
| 290648 | Marshall Fine | Journal News (Westchester, NY) | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-12-19T23:26:43.000Z | 2023-12-19 23:26:43 | It's a fascinating experiment at making a movie that offers as much character and plot complexity as a novel. Had Mann been able to distill it further, it could have been a truly great movie. |
| 290649 | Robert W. Butler | Kansas City Star | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2023-12-19T23:24:50.000Z | 2023-12-19 23:24:50 | I never once believed in its characters. Mann's style is too hyperbolic for that -- yet over a three-hour running time Heat works its way under your skin. |
| 290650 | Michael D. Reid | Victoria Times Colonist (B.C., Canada) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2023-12-19T23:14:31.000Z | 2023-12-19 23:14:31 | It all becomes terribly tiresome, and Heat loses even more of its sizzle with Mann's preoccupation with the love lives of its protagonists. |
| 290651 | Jay Stone | Ottawa Citizen | Fresh | 3/5 | 2023-12-19T22:53:21.000Z | 2023-12-19 22:53:21 | It is seductive, although at three hours it's an awful lot of hot-eyed actors and the glittering facade of America. Those who also sat through the three hours of Casino will probably have their recommended yearly dosage of Robert De Niro. |
| 290652 | Dan DiNicola | The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY) | Fresh | — | 2023-12-19T22:49:20.000Z | 2023-12-19 22:49:20 | From a pure narrative standpoint, Heat does not stand up to the test of a three-hour movie. As interesting or as gripping as some of the scenes may be, this is no soaring epic. But it is great grand opera. |
| 290653 | Jeffrey Westhoff | Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2023-12-19T22:45:56.000Z | 2023-12-19 22:45:56 | It may sound cynical for an action film to condemn violence, but Mann gets away with it. Heat is a powerful, fine film. It's just too much of one. |
| 290654 | John Millar | Daily Record (UK) | Fresh | — | 2023-12-19T22:21:11.000Z | 2023-12-19 22:21:11 | Way too long for what is really just a well told cop movie. That said, Heat remains an impressive film, but falls short of being Michael Mann's masterpiece. |
| 290655 | Bob Fenster | Arizona Republic | Rotten | 2/5 | 2023-12-19T22:19:04.000Z | 2023-12-19 22:19:04 | In Heat, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Michael Mann manage to misuse their talents by going too long and too wide but not deep enough. |
| 290656 | Wael Khairy | RogerEbert.com | Fresh | — | 2023-08-29T20:13:27.000Z | 2023-08-29 20:13:27 | Michael Mann's "Heat" ranks right up there with the best of the crime genre from "Rififi" to "The Godfather". In fact, it is the single greatest Los Angeles crime epic of all time. |
| 290657 | Wendy Ide | The Times (UK) | Fresh | — | 2023-08-18T22:45:05.000Z | 2023-08-18 22:45:05 | This outstanding crime movie, written and directed by Michael Mann, is a career high point for pretty much everyone involved and served as a useful reminder of just why Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are two of our greatest living actors. |
| 290658 | Mark Johnson | Awards Daily | Fresh | — | 2023-06-27T16:59:19.000Z | 2023-06-27 16:59:19 | One of the great crime dramas ever made...Heat is a gritty and meticulous cat-and-mouse thriller |
| 290659 | Sean Axmaker | Stream on Demand | Fresh | — | 2023-06-11T00:57:18.000Z | 2023-06-11 00:57:18 | Mann is a master at the mechanics of high-end heists and major crime investigations but the film lives in the characters of McCauley and Hanna, a pair of pros perfectly matched in the game of cops and robbers. |
| 290660 | Fico Cangiano | CineXpress Podcast | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2023-05-25T18:35:41.000Z | 2023-05-25 18:35:41 | Pacino. De Niro. Mann. One of the best crime dramas of all time. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 290661 | Kevin Carr | Fat Guys at the Movies | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-08-12T23:08:37.000Z | 2022-08-12 23:08:37 | Hard hitting and full of spirit, Heat delivers on the action as well as the nuanced characters, raising it above the standard 90s cop drama. |
| 290662 | David Nusair | Reel Film Reviews | Fresh | 4/4 | 2022-06-21T22:36:53.000Z | 2022-06-21 22:36:53 | One of the best crime movies ever made... |
| 290663 | Matt Brunson | Film Frenzy | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2022-04-10T01:22:28.000Z | 2022-04-10 01:22:28 | Mann ups the ante on all of the formulaic elements by instilling them with a grandiloquence they may not even deserve. |
| 290664 | Mal Vincent | The Virginian-Pilot | Fresh | 3/4 | 2022-03-10T20:55:43.000Z | 2022-03-10 20:55:43 | The movie is lacking in both heart and soul, but it makes up for it with sheer voyeurism. |
| 290665 | Brian Eggert | Deep Focus Review | Fresh | 4/4 | 2022-02-23T04:06:26.000Z | 2022-02-23 04:06:26 | In Heat, all the meticulous authenticity and coolly portrayed characters inherent to a Michael Mann picture fulfill a crime epic of incredible scale and ambition. |
| 290666 | Graeme Tuckett | The Post NZ | Fresh | — | 2021-12-29T19:12:03.000Z | 2021-12-29 19:12:03 | Twenty-six years after it was released, I'm not sure that Heat has ever been bettered as an action film, or as a crime drama. |
| 290667 | Joe Nolan | Nashville Scene | Fresh | — | 2021-09-13T23:05:00.000Z | 2021-09-13 23:05:00 | Heat gives us one of crime cinema's great cat-and-mouse chases, and brilliantly pairs it with the little everyday dramas of family, romance, parenting and work-life balance in the life-and-death professions of both cops and robbers. |
| 290668 | Toussaint Egan | Polygon | Fresh | — | 2021-05-11T19:30:37.000Z | 2021-05-11 19:30:37 | A triumphant assemblage of carefully interlocking components; working in concert with the precision of a Swiss timepiece. |
| 290669 | Mike Massie | Gone With The Twins | Fresh | 9/10 | 2020-09-14T06:11:38.000Z | 2020-09-14 06:11:38 | The precious few exchanges between legendary actors Al Pacino and Robert De Niro make it all worthwhile. |
| 290670 | Allen Almachar | The MacGuffin | Fresh | — | 2020-07-15T22:26:38.000Z | 2020-07-15 22:26:38 | 'For me, the action is the juice.' That is the defining theme of Michael Mann's work - to examine how people operate within their own moral system, and how it contrasts with the rest of society. |
| 290671 | Leigh Paatsch | Herald Sun (Australia) | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2020-04-24T18:21:14.000Z | 2020-04-24 18:21:14 | Unbelievably, this was the first film to bring together DeNiro and Pacino, and the scene where they finally come face-to-face... is the true highpoint of an intelligent and exciting actioner absolutely jam-packed with great moments. |
| 290672 | Sean Burns | WBUR’s Arts & Culture | Fresh | — | 2019-08-15T04:01:37.000Z | 2019-08-15 04:01:37 | The most meticulously designed of Mann's features, with careful compositions positioning the characters against bustling cityscapes and empty expanses that externalize their interior lives. |
| 290673 | Quentin Curtis | Independent on Sunday | Fresh | — | 2017-12-12T20:17:42.000Z | 2017-12-12 20:17:42 | This movie confirms Mann as one of the most distinctive and skilled of current American directors. |
| 290674 | Nick Rogers | Midwest Film Journal | Fresh | 5/5 | 2015-12-29T12:46:50.000Z | 2015-12-29 12:46:50 | Ominous, operatic, often emulated but never equaled. This is go-for-broke, GOAT-level filmmaking - not only upending expectations but exceeding them with unanticipated success in its elegant, exciting examination of existential and emotional entropy. |
| 290675 | Michael Wilmington | Chicago Tribune | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2014-04-29T12:34:45.000Z | 2014-04-29 12:34:45 | When Pacino's loud, bruised cop and De Niro's canny crook stare at each other, you can read something spent and weary in their eyes and voices. The heat is hell. So are their jobs -- but somebody's got to do them. |
| 290676 | Anthony Lane | The New Yorker | Fresh | — | 2014-04-29T12:33:38.000Z | 2014-04-29 12:33:38 | The taciturn De Niro and the braying Pacino share a flawless scene over a cup of coffee, but the real honors go to Val Kilmer and Ashley Judd as a warring, loving couple. |
| 290677 | Steven Rea | Philadelphia Inquirer | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2014-04-29T12:25:59.000Z | 2014-04-29 12:25:59 | So why doesn't Heat, with its elaborately staged, tautly edited robberies, its killer cast, edgy score and elegant cinematography, offer more satisfaction? It's the script, stupid. |
| 290678 | David Ansen | Newsweek | Fresh | — | 2014-04-29T12:25:05.000Z | 2014-04-29 12:25:05 | Just when it seemed that the only hope for crime movies lay in the postmodernist artifice of films like Pulp Fiction, Mann reinvests the genre with brooding, modernist conviction. This one sticks to your gut. |
| 290679 | Jonathan Rosenbaum | Chicago Reader | Fresh | — | 2014-04-29T12:23:25.000Z | 2014-04-29 12:23:25 | There's nothing really new in this lengthy 1995 thriller by writer-director Michael Mann about cops and robbers in Los Angeles, but it has craft, pacing, and an overall sense of proportion, three pretty rare classic virtues nowadays. |
| 290680 | Dave Kehr | New York Daily News | Fresh | 3/4 | 2014-04-29T12:20:27.000Z | 2014-04-29 12:20:27 | An odd though often entertaining blend of The Asphalt Jungle and Oprah, a traditional cops-and-robbers story weirdly fitted out with long, earnest discussions of interpersonal relationships. |
| 290681 | Jay Boyar | Orlando Sentinel | Fresh | 4/5 | 2014-04-29T12:18:05.000Z | 2014-04-29 12:18:05 | There isn't much going on at this party other than what the actors bring to it. But fortunately, Mann has invited some exceptional ones. |
| 290682 | Gary Thompson | Philadelphia Daily News | Fresh | 3/4 | 2014-04-29T11:49:16.000Z | 2014-04-29 11:49:16 | A movie with two powerhouse performances and enough bad dialogue (it runs two hours, 45 minutes) to clog a Pentium processor. |
| 290683 | John Hartl | Seattle Times | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2014-04-29T11:48:06.000Z | 2014-04-29 11:48:06 | Heat becomes consistently more interesting as it forges on toward the 180-minute mark. |
| 290684 | Adrian Turner | Radio Times | Fresh | 4/5 | 2014-04-29T11:46:32.000Z | 2014-04-29 11:46:32 | Though punctuated by bursts of virtuoso action, including a running battle in downtown LA that ranks as one of the best action scenes ever filmed, it is the unusual emphasis on character that impresses most. |
| 290685 | Stephen Hunter | Baltimore Sun | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2014-04-29T11:45:35.000Z | 2014-04-29 11:45:35 | This is glandular, not intellectual, movie-making but it's at the highest end of technical expressiveness. |
| 290686 | David Sterritt | Christian Science Monitor | Rotten | 2/4 | 2014-04-29T11:44:25.000Z | 2014-04-29 11:44:25 | The performances are persuasive but the plot rattles on much too long. |
| 290687 | Rod Dreher | South Florida Sun-Sentinel | Fresh | — | 2014-04-29T11:43:49.000Z | 2014-04-29 11:43:49 | Though it's a tad too schematic, Heat, written and directed by Michael Mann, provides a venue for white-hot acting by De Niro and Pacino. |
| 290688 | Simon Cote | Austin Chronicle | Fresh | — | 2014-04-29T11:42:32.000Z | 2014-04-29 11:42:32 | With a stellar cast including Val Kilmer and Jon Voight, Heat has it all including a great soundtrack full of tone-setting, ambient, and symphonic arrangements. |
| 290689 | Dan Webster | Spokesman-Review (Washington) | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2014-04-29T11:40:44.000Z | 2014-04-29 11:40:44 | If, overall, Mann stretches a bit, the numerous successes are nevertheless worth watching. |
| 290690 | Total Film Staff | Total Film | Fresh | 5/5 | 2014-04-29T11:39:57.000Z | 2014-04-29 11:39:57 | Heat isn't only his peerless lesson in how to make clusters of concrete and glass look beautiful, it's also an eloquent study of loyalty, commitment and good guy/ bad guy duality. |
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