Danielle Solzman Solzy at the Movies Jan 8, 2025 3.5/5

While both Harvey Keitel and John Magaro excel as the Jewish mobster, Lansky is a good film but there was the potential for it to be a great film.

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Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies Aug 17, 2022 4/5

Keitel and Magaro team up to give a captivating portrayal of Meyer Lansky that is firmly rooted in the real account.

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Terry Staunton Radio Times Jun 30, 2022 3/5

Much of the violence features in a series of well-staged if perfunctory flashbacks, but Keitel's menacing portrayal suggests a man still capable of intimidation.

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Eddie Harrison film-authority.com Apr 28, 2022 4/5

Lansky features a terrific performance from Keitel, making something recognisably human from a complex character who has been played once too often as a cartoon villain

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Hannah Brown Jerusalem Post Mar 4, 2022

Keitel has played many tough guys throughout his career, but it is hard to think of a role in which he has been better.

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Feb 12, 2022 B

American and Israeli governments prove to be the dirtiest mob of the bunch.

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Gianmarco Farfán Cinencuentro Jan 5, 2022

A dynamic script... permanently mixes the repudiable gangster past with the calm and almost inactive present. [Full review in Spanish]

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Philipp Engel Cinemanía (Spain) Nov 4, 2021 3/5

A little stroll through American history. [Full review in Spanish]

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John Serba Decider Oct 13, 2021

So Lansky's kind of a mess. But Keitel makes it a mostly endearing one. Corral your expectations.

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Bradley Gibson Film Threat Oct 7, 2021 7/10

There are no great faults to find with it, except one: fans of the genre have literally seen every element of it before.

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Alan Ng Film Threat Sep 24, 2021 6.5/10

Lanskyis a story worth watching. However, I'd love to see how this narrative would have played out if the filmmaker had been given a lot more money.

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Witney Seibold Critically Acclaimed Podcast Sep 17, 2021

The film's decision to stay with the narrator and not Lansky himself was a deathly bad decision.

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Peter Canavese Celluloid Dreams Jul 18, 2021 1.5/4

Its trite script lacks emotional resonance (though the thread about Israeli politics was interesting). But overall, pretty pokey.

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Eleanor Ringel Cater Saporta Report (Atlanta) Jul 9, 2021

One wonders what we might've seen had someone made a movie about Lansky in the 1970s, starring Keitel. Now that might've been, as they used to say, a must-see.

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Jul 9, 2021 C-

Please, someone put Keitel in one last film that deserves him. Keitel does infinitely more for "Lansky" than it does for him.

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Carla Hay Culture Mix Jul 8, 2021

Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese has mastered the art of making movies about American mobsters. [This movie, which is] about real-life 20th century crime boss Meyer Lansky, is one of numerous cheap and trite imitations of a Scorsese gangster film.

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Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times Jul 6, 2021 2.5/4

Harvey Keitel takes a swing at portraying the "Mob's Accountant" and Keitel is as reliable as he's always been - but while this is a well-filmed and well-acted story, much of the material has been covered in superior movies.

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Jackie K. Cooper jackiekcooper.com Jul 6, 2021 6/10

Harvey Keitel and Sam Worthington are good actors but they are wasted in the present day aspect of the movie.

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Michael Clark Epoch Times Jul 2, 2021 4.5/5

Lansky was a fascinatingly conflicted man. Rockaway, his crew, Keitel, and Magaro have crafted an engrossing and indelible movie of his life story.

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Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall Jul 1, 2021 3/5

This finely produced biopic about Meyer Lansky never feels rushed even as it moves briskly through the decades.

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