The Gentlemen: reviews

What the critics say average 5.2 from 6 outlets

• 7.0 The Hollywood ReporterStephen Dalton Ritchie's homecoming is a fairly familiar affair, but also refreshingly funny and deftly plotted, with more witty lines and less boorish machismo than his early work. Read
• 6.0 The GuardianPeter Bradshaw Another dose of geezer-gangstery made all the more watchable by star turns from Matthew McConaughey and Hugh Grant (...) Ritchie has made an entertaining return to his mockney roots. Read
• 6.0 EmpireIan Freer What it lacks in freshness and depth, The Gentlemen certainly makes up for in cartoon-y bluster and fun details. Welcome home, Mister Ritchie. Read
• 4.2 IndiewireMike McCahill Two decades and several million dollars into Ritchie?s career, his latest feels like a heavily cynical, a crass attempt to appease his 'Aladdin' detractors. Read
• 4.0 VarietyGuy Lodge Himself gentrified by a decade in Hollywood?s big leagues, Ritchie doesn?t much seem to know his own scuzzy world anymore. Read
• 4.0 Screen DailySarah Ward A disposable crime caper on autopilot (...) Ritchie reclaims the genre that brought him to fame but does little more than shuffle battered parts into an intermittently entertaining configuration. Read