Variety
"...De Niro is utterly in his element here as a self-assured, celebrated Gothamite....[Roden] makes Emil into a scarily gleeful, quick-witted sociopath....[Theron provides] a bright cameo..." 03/05/2001 p.39-44Movieline's Hollywood Life
"...De Niro gives a commanding performance, and Edward Burns is appealing....Grammar has fun with his slimeball role..." 03/01/2001 p.34-7 New York Times
"...[The film] has a crowd-stopping impact....It's exhilarating to watch Mr. De Niro in 15 MINUTES, exulting in his pallor and workingman's verve....Mr. Herzfeld works with zest..." 03/09/2001 p.E22 Rolling Stone
"...It's fun to watch the notoriously press-shy de Niro preening for the cameras. He and Burns spar in style..." 03/29/2001 p.67 Los Angeles Times
"...Exciting....Its savage indictment of the nexus involving media, crime and a voracious public is a cinematic statement difficult to ignore..." 03/09/2001 p.1 San Francisco Chronicle 8 of 10
...writer-director John Herzfeld has created a shrewd thriller, in which the American obsession with media fame forms the backdrop... Herzfeld creates a world in which media is the air people breathe... The picture is more impressive as it goes along, revealing a symmetry of construction underneath the rudiments of a thriller. - Mick LaSalle
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