Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm Oct 31, 2025 3.5/4

Warren Beatty cracked the biopic code...

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Kyle Smith National Review Mar 9, 2022

One of the five best films of the 1980s,

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James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk Jan 6, 2022 3/4

all the richer and more meaningful because it is not static history, but rather a grenade of genuine political passion lobbed into an era of increasing conservatism and military build-up-an elegy for an ideal

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Dec 4, 2021 4/4

A movie rich in purpose and incident.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Mar 24, 2021 9/10

The wait is excruciating, but the final convergence of the leads' periodically disparate paths is emotionally overwhelming - in a good way.

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Larry Vitacco Philadelphia Gay News May 27, 2020 3/4

Given the impeccable production values, first-rate performances and epic proportions, the movie's just not as intriguing or involving as it should have been.

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Michael Lasky Bay Area Reporter May 7, 2020

Here is a three and one-half hour docudrama that is claustrophobically filled with ceaseless political rhetoric and mixed with a limp, unpersuasive love story.

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Molly Haskell Vogue Feb 27, 2020

Beatty has come up with a rich, remarkably balanced portrait of a fascinating episode in American radical politics, and the love story that rode its crest like a tiny boat braving a turbulent sea.

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Alex Lei Film Inquiry Sep 24, 2019

Reds seems like what we'd now call Oscar bait, with its epic love triangle of powerhouse stars set amid the backdrop of a massive historic moment, but the details keep it far from that.

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Diego Galán El Pais (Spain) Aug 22, 2019

Warren Beatty doesn't manage to take control of his project, taking history through the path of information or melodrama. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Christopher Lloyd The Film Yap Dec 17, 2018 2.5/5

Despite its impeccable credentials, Reds is an overlong, often boring epic that can't decide where to focus the story.

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Bob Thomas Associated Press Oct 22, 2018

Beatty gives the performance of his lifetime as the erratic, possessed Reed, and his grasp of the direction of an epic film is truly astonishing.

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Robert Hatch The Nation Feb 5, 2018

Beatty, who produced, directed, helped to write and starred in this impressive work, may be forgiven for not having the heart to cut it.

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Stanley Kauffmann The New Republic Jan 8, 2018

If no one will learn much about politics from this film, Beatty has nonetheless put the fire of two burning lives in it. There is plenty in it about the risks that commitment entails, but it is about commitment.

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Judith Martin Washington Post May 9, 2017

It is occasionally rambling and repetitious, but nearly always intelligent and engrossing.

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Wesley Lovell Cinema Sight Aug 15, 2011 4/4

Warren Beatty's political epic features superlative performances and speaks to the inner-rebel in each of us.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Jan 10, 2010 B

Filled with rich ideas.

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Jun 14, 2008 4/5

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Phil Villarreal Arizona Daily Star Aug 5, 2007 4/4

Vittorio Storaro, who won an Oscar for his cinematography, keeps the long film moving at a healthy pace, mixing static shots with subtle camera movement, never showing off or detracting from the story.

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James Sanford Kalamazoo Gazette Jan 12, 2007 4/4

an epic love story ... As a teenager I saw it four times in the theater (which I now find pretty astonishing, considering the movie is well more than three hours long -- I had a lot more free time in 1981!)

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