The Son of No One 2011

Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: Read more

James Rocchi, MSN Movies: The Son of No One is so heavy and depressing it just becomes a slog. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: "The Son of No One" self-destructs in a ludicrous, ineptly directed anticlimactic rooftop showdown in which bodies pile up, and nothing makes a shred of sense. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Tatum mainly sits around looking like a pitiable bump on a log while Ray Liotta, as a corrupt superior, makes his patented Intensaface. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: A few individual performances survive-Liotta finds a little of his old edge, and Pacino briefly revisits Serpico territory-but they're smothered in the slow-burning absurdity. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Muddled cop thriller The Son of No One has a top-drawer cast and a bottom-drawer script. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The more that secret comes out, the more incoherent (and ludicrous) the film gets. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: Performances are strong across the board, and the movie offers a solid sense of place. But the mysteries, once explained, don't make a lot of sense. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: Life is a struggle, the new film "The Son of No One" makes that explicitly clear. But so is moviemaking, and unfortunately the toil is all too evident in writer-director Dito Montiel's messy, logic-strained third feature. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It just feels like a mess. Read more

Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News: There's a real flavor to the subway-platform offices, cramped projects and rooftop sanctuaries captured here. Montiel does a fine job of protecting, and serving, this specific city hood. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: A laughable police melodrama. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: This heavy-handed muddle of a cop thriller is just impossibly bad. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Here's a bad movie with hardly a bad scene. How can that be? The construction doesn't flow. The story doesn't engage. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: You can see why actors want to work with Montiel, but actors are notoriously bad judges of whether good scenes will ever add up to a worthwhile movie, which is exactly the problem here. Read more

Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: Montiel cares little about plot logic or even the remotest connection with reality... but, as in the director's previous work, some terrific acting emerges from the absurd script. Read more

John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: Something is lacking in the dramatic equation. Read more