Ellen Gray Philadelphia Daily News Mar 10, 2021 C+

Sinatra's image is just too fresh and idiosyncratic to allow for the suspension of disbelief that The Rat Pack requires, even if Liotta had had a better handle on Sinatra's charisma than he demonstrates here.

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Steve Johnson Chicago Tribune Mar 8, 2021

This depiction of the Rat Pack, in their misogynistic, racist, mob-friendly fullness, feels rounded and human in a way that some of the most dewy-eyed remembrances of Sinatra, at the time of his death, were not.

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Hal Boedeker Orlando Sentinel Apr 29, 2020

It's a diffused, pointless, tabloid drama rendered, for the most part, in stilted, waxworks fashion.

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Tom Shales Washington Post Apr 29, 2020

Watching it is like having a hangover without the fun of getting happily plastered in the first place.

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John Carman San Francisco Chronicle Apr 29, 2020

They researched the facts and worked on the characterizations, but the makers of "The Rat Pack" ultimately lose their way.

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David Zurawik Baltimore Sun Apr 29, 2020

It's not a home-run swing, but it reaches extra bases for what it has to say about a certain male swagger that's been lost and how upward mobility will take you only as far as the real powers say you can go.

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Kay McFadden Seattle Times Apr 29, 2020 3.5/5

What's surprising is the way the deftly handled drama exposes the darkness without destroying the glamour.

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Adrian Turner Radio Times Apr 29, 2020 3/5

The pulse of the era is beautifully evoked as [Frank] Sinatra learns the difference between entertaining the nation and running the nation state.

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Terry Kelleher People Magazine Apr 29, 2020

The film gains points for giving old gossip new fascination.

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James Collins TIME Magazine Apr 29, 2020

The story is familiar; the actors fail to generate electricity, and the script contains some real embarrassments.

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Caryn James New York Times Apr 29, 2020

Despite some high moments, it desperately lacks the charismatic charge that would have explained it all. Viewers can fill in the gaps in this pedestrian movie, but they really shouldn't have to.

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Alan Pergament Buffalo News Apr 29, 2020 3/5

[Kario] Salem's script occasionally sings poetically but too often the movie plays like a series of highlight scenes that aren't cohesively tied together.

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Robert Wilonsky Dallas Observer Apr 29, 2020

It's a film about style that has none, a film about tough guys that has no punch, a cocktail without the booze.

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Barbara D. Phillips Wall Street Journal Apr 29, 2020

Kario Salem's screenplay and Rob Cohen's direction seem aimed at the so-called Martini Nation, twentysomethings whose grasp of cool style and slick surface is a lot stronger than that of history.

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Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly Apr 29, 2020 A-

In its re-creation of a time and spirit that our pop culture has so eagerly enshrined in instant legend, this clear-eyed, unsentimental movie is a small marvel of honesty and craft.

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John Leonard New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 1, 2018

If Rob Cohen directs The Rat Pack like a self-important music video, and Savion Glover choreographs it to satirize Las Vegas, Salem is always a cynical presence, at the end of the bar, seeing this sentimentality for the sleaze it is.

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Phil Gallo Variety Mar 26, 2009

Director Rob Cohen attempts to bring extra layers to each scene but he winds up handcuffed by the script, particularly in the Sinatra scenes.

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Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily Oct 8, 2005 3/5

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Michael E. Grost Classic Film and Television Aug 13, 2005

Inventive biopic mixes politics and history with dazzling color and visual style.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jun 12, 2005 2/5

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