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90One of the best movies of the year and by far the most entertaining.
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90Practically perfect in its unpretentious way, MGM's Get Shorty is the kind of smart, witty, polished entertainment that restores one's faith in the studio system.
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90Director Barry Sonnenfeld captures Hollywood in sunny tones, with fluid camera moves providing maximum comic effect.
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90Barry Sonnenfeld's bouncy, immensely likable adaptation.
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90A smart, shrewdly crafted movie.
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90In Get Shorty, director Barry Sonnenfeld's spirited adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel, Travolta's rebirth accelerates directly into adulthood.
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Barry Sonnenfeld's irresistibly charming lampoon of Hollywood.
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88One of the pleasures of Get Shorty is watching the way the plot moves effortlessly from crime to the movies - not a long distance, since both industries are based on fear, greed, creativity and intimidation.
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This movie is charming the way so few movies are anymore.
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88With Get Shorty, Sonnenfeld has shown that broad appeal doesn't necessarily equate with stupidity. That's a lesson Hollywood should learn.
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88Hackman is unexpectedly hilarious. With protruding top teeth and a professorial beard, he's a motormouth, badgering and abusing one minute, wheedling and fawning the next.
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80The jokes are quick, with clever jibes alternating with double-crosses and the occasional murder, and the streamlined plot unrolls like a colorful ball of twine.
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80The author's sardonic voice has been lost in most films based on his fiction, but this one nicely captures that unruffled Leonard authority. And since Get Shorty is about Hollywood, it invites the sneaky self-mockery that gives this film its comic punch. [20 October 1995, p. C1]
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80Good, sly fun.
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80An entertaining comedy-thriller directed with bounce (if not much nuance) by Barry Sonnenfeld.
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78The film is wickedly hilarious but more in a droll and knowing kind of sense than a har-de-har-har manner.
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75One of the sharper, funnier, better-cast, better-written movies around right now. But there's something about it that, well, comes up short. [20 October 1995, Friday, p.C]
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75The picture has enough assets to please moviegoers willing to put up with its many four-letter words and the bursts of violence that spring from nowhere at unexpected moments. [27 October 1995, Arts Film, p.12]
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75Get Shorty is exquisitely cast, with droll, well-nuanced performances.
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75Though it sounds like a blueprint for either disaster or dynamite, the movie is a bit too controlled to be either.
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60A smirky black comedy that, like its John Lurie score, is jazzy, dry, and light on its feet.
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60Get Shorty's assortment of lowlifes and high rollers is a familiar one, but it's still deeply satisfying.
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ChrisM.9This movie is a lot like "The Player" a little more entertaining though.