Brian D. Johnson Maclean's Magazine Oct 15, 2019

With Jack Nicholson as the star and playwright David Mamet writing the script, Hoffa sounds unbeatable. But the movie is a major disappointment.

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David Ansen Newsweek Aug 14, 2018

Big and portentous, Hoffa feels like a series of acting exercises inflated to epic proportions. But as a portrait of unionism's most controversial figure, it offers only flickering illumination.

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Murray Kempton The New York Review of Books Aug 14, 2018

Danny De Vito's Hoffa is artfully constructed, masterfully played, and travels at speeds beyond the prescriptive norm.

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Adam Mars-Jones Independent (UK) Nov 14, 2017

Hoffa, with its jaundiced script and a director wedded to his rose-tinted spectacles, is a mess, with only the sterling truculence of Nicholson's performance to mitigate it.

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Brian Orndorf Blu-ray.com Mar 20, 2013 B-

DeVito is blasting away with the audacity of a film student, making Hoffa an effort of extraordinary detail, craftsmanship, and directorial ingenuity.

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Sep 7, 2011 D

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Chuck O'Leary FulvueDrive-in.com Feb 18, 2006 7/10

Nicholson's intense, volcanic performance saves this part-fact, part-fiction biopic that's a little too in awe of its subject.

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Feb 17, 2006 4/5

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Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com May 10, 2005 3/5

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Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews Oct 8, 2004 2/5

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Eric Lurio Greenwich Village Gazette Jun 19, 2004 4/5

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Ryan Cracknell Movie Views Jul 17, 2003 3/5

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Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) May 30, 2003 2/5

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Alex Sandell Juicy Cerebellum Mar 5, 2003 4/5

An extremely underrated film. Well worth watching, again and again.

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Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews Jan 28, 2003 2/10

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Jeffrey M. Anderson San Francisco Examiner Jan 17, 2003 5/5

A hugely underrated, passionate, powerful biopic.

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Michael Drakulich Star Newspapers (Chicago, IL) Dec 11, 2002 3/5

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Larry Carroll Countingdown.com Aug 9, 2002 2/5

A decent, but flawed movie. The performance by Nicholson is tremendous, and he really becomes Hoffa, but the rest of the film just isn't on the same level as he is. Unless you're a big fan of Jack, or particularly interested by Hoffa, pass.

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Cory Cheney Urban Tulsa Weekly Aug 8, 2002 2/5

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Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com Jul 25, 2002 4/5

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