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Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Shannon could be looking at an Oscar nomination. His performance is that stone-cold good. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: Shannon inhabits this character so completely that by the end of this hard-to-watch, hard-to-look-away-from movie you feel you can, if not understand Richie, at least wish he had found some redemption in life. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Michael Shannon's mesmerizing portrayal of Richard Kuklinski, a notorious contract killer, has the paradoxical quality, peculiar to many great screen performances, of being unreadable and transparent. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Michael Shannon is so fascinating that I was honestly rooting for him to survive. The point of The Iceman is "Even monsters are human," but it takes a great actor to make a dubious theme convincing. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Shannon is brilliantly unnerving as he callously dispenses with people, then returns home to maintain his facade of a loving husband and father. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's often mesmerizing, primarily for Shannon's performance as a man who's a master of compartmentalizing ... Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: A finely chiseled thriller that reflects the cold-blooded efficiency of its murderous subject in every frame and detai Read more
Ben Kenigsberg, AV Club: Alternating scenes of the psycho-as-family-man with an increasingly grisly and desperate series of hits, it makes for a surprisingly monotonous sit for a movie that also features a killer named Mr. Freezy. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Why would anyone want to watch something so determinedly downbeat, so unerringly serious? Because of the performances, Shannon's in particular. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It's a fascinating subject - the beast that lurks inside the family man - but the movie blows it. Read more
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: This biopic sounds like a perfect vehicle for Shannon, who's come to specialize in playing psychopaths, but it doesn't give him much to work with. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Just when you think you've seen enough of these wiseguys, along comes a story like Kuklinski's, and an actor like Shannon. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Shannon gets at his character's pent-up torment as well as his efficient disconnect. When his two worlds start to converge -- on his daughter's sweet 16th birthday, no less -- you feel for him. Read more
Adam Graham, Detroit News: As the body count mounts, the movie begins to spin out of control, but Shannon and Vromen don't let it derail. Their focus keep things from melting down. Read more
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: With his chiseled-from-granite brow and harrowing, coiled-spring intensity, Michael Shannon is one of those actors who can make just about any movie interesting. And he has his work cut out for him in The Iceman ... Read more
David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: The redoubtable Michael Shannon leads a superb cast in Ariel Vromen's compelling portrait of New Jersey career criminal Richard Kuklinski. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: "The Iceman's" problem rests instead with the script, which the director wrote with Morgan Land, his collaborator on the "Rx" screenplay. It never gets underneath Kuklinski's skin in a way that illuminates the psychosis. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: As both violent drama and character study, Israeli director Ariel Vromen's film does everything it should. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: There's not much style here, beyond the uniformly good acting, and even less of a point. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Michael Shannon moves through "The Iceman" like a shark. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: A sketchy, flatly directed biopic based on one of the most compelling true crime stories out of New Jersey ... Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: A true-crime thriller directed with grit, gristle and punchy energy by Ariel Vromen, The Iceman is never less than fascinating, even if things get a little ham-fisted here and there. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The Iceman offers a chronological view into the life of its title protagonist... and what a life it is. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's as if one of the sideline characters from "Goodfellas" or "The Godfather" starred in his own spinoff. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: While Hollywood keeps coughing up comedies and thrillers about sympathetic hitmen, the true story dramatized in "The Iceman" should bury those noxious fantasies forever. Read more
Adam Nayman, Globe and Mail: Michael Shannon is an overpowering actor, and in The Iceman, the best that he can do is wrestle the movie around him to a stalemate. Read more
Toronto Star: The script ... offers few insights into Kuklinski's psychic makeup or motivations and even less reason to care about them. Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: Even the always-watchable Shannon can't give much life to Kuklinski's two-dimensional presence: he's little more than a series of murders and pained looks. Read more
Rebecca Moss, Village Voice: Shannon gives an unnerving performance as a man caged in a cruel apathy, maintaining a controlled facade that seems to twitch with barely sublimated distress. Read more