Bugsy is a constant visual and auditive pleasure, also flattering to the spectators' intelligence. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jul 27, 2023

It’s the unconventional, erratic love story that remains the film’s most potent ingredient (the melancholy score by Ennio Morricone isn’t bad either), even if the educational notes about the famous rogue provide only modest entertainment value.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 31, 2023

This is the kind of film that Americans make best: It is fast-moving, hard-hitting, and it is about power.

Full Review | Apr 6, 2022

[Beatty] tries to make Siegel humorous and glamorously suave, but Is defeated by the futility of the enterprise. This paranoid sadist is not a nice guy. He is not even interesting; merely a bully with a few colorful mannerisms.

Full Review | Aug 16, 2021

Annette Bening is phenomenal as sultry, foul-mouthed femme fatale/corporate lieutenant Virginia Hill. Worth watching for her alone.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2020

From James Toback's crackling script to Warren Beatty's electric performance as gangster Ben Siegel, Bugsy is so engrossing that you feel uncharitable mentioning that while splendid in individual scenes, Barry Levinson's movie lacks propulsion.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 29, 2014

What finally distinguishes Bugsy from other mob movies is its ever-present sense of the absurd.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 29, 2014

Insouciant and flashy, co-producer Beatty is at his best when evoking the narcissistic, show-business side of Siegel.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 29, 2014

A great deal of the fun of watching this very assured film is seeing with what energetic panache the actor takes on the mantle of the mobster J. Edgar Hoover once called "the most dangerous man in America."

Full Review | Oct 29, 2014

The picture belongs, in every sense of the word, to Beatty.

Full Review | Oct 29, 2014

Most actors give more contained performances as they get older or else they risk self-parody. Beatty, who has always seemed larger than life, gets even larger with age -- and on him it looks good.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2014

Beatty and Annette Bening charge their roles with energy, and the supporting cast includes such talents as Harvey Keitel, Joe Mantegna, Ben Kingsley, and Elliott Gould in sturdy performances.

Full Review | Oct 29, 2014

While Bugsy expertly captures the glamor of '40s Hollywood, it fails as the drama of a man whose dreams of glory lure him to an ignominious end.

Full Review | Oct 29, 2014

Warren Beatty delivers some of his best acting in years as Bugsy Siegel, the gangster responsible for the inception of Las Vegas as we now know it.

Full Review | Oct 29, 2014

A clump of casinos in the sand is evidence of something, but I'm pretty sure it's not greatness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 29, 2014

Oh, it's not that they cover up Siegel's brutal side, it's just that they undercut it by making the man just a victim of his own appetites, which is sort of like saying Charles Manson was just a little too enthusiastic about a certain Beatles tune.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 29, 2014

While avoiding the usual gangster film clichs, director Barry Levinson also insists that Warren Beatty does more than coast through this movie on matine idol looks and easy charm.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2014

Beatty's daring schizophrenic performance -- on the one hand charming and gregarious, on the other a brutal killing machine -- makes this one of the best performances (but not films) of his career.

Full Review | Oct 29, 2014

Levinson's direction is brisk and, for a film largely about the allure of glamour, suitably flashy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 29, 2014

Barry Levinson's good-looking gangster pic may be nowhere near GoodFellas-calibre mob drama, but it manages to convey the menace and glamour of real-life west coast hood Benjamin 'Bugsy' Seigel (Warren Beatty) with evocative style.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2014