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100Even in the classiest movie summer of the decade, Mob is destined to demand respect for Pfeiffer. [19 Aug 1988]
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90Fresh, colorful and inventive, Married to the Mob is another offbeat entertainment from director Jonathan Demme.
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You'll thoroughly enjoy the out-of-kilter existence.
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90Director Jonathan Demme has nailed one with this playful, but dangerous, gangster farce.
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88There is plenty to amuse and delight here, including fine performances from Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, and Dean Stockwell.
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80Strangely enough, Married to the Mob, which may prove to be Demme's long-overdue passport to mass audience adulation, may tickle everyone but die-hard Demme fans. [19 Aug 1988]
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80[Pfeiffer & Demme] and a gang of co-stars have created a coherent farce symphony.
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75It's a movie of a thousand pleasures - of glinting insights and sly twists. [19 Aug 1988]
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75Married to the Mob is a funny yard sale of a film about regeneration in a junked-up America. [19 Aug 1988]
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75Missing from Married to the Mob, written by Barry Strugatz and Mark R. Burns, is the freewheeling structure, but everything else that makes Demme one of the friendliest of major U.S. directors is in glorious evidence. [19 Aug 1988]
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63Married to the Mob isn't for all tastes. But for cinematic thrills and spills, it's quite a ride.
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60Jonathan Demme's follow-up to "Swimming To Cambodia" is a typically entertaining diversion.
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60Married to the Mob works best as a wildly overdecorated screwball farce.
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60Director Jonathan Demme's farcical and broad 1988 comedy, written by Barry Strugatz and Mark R. Burns, doesn't really work, but there are plenty of enjoyable compensations.
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50Married to the Mob picks up pace throughout and builds to an exciting finish. [19 Aug 1988]