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  • 2021
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  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 59 m
  • 2021
  • R
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 59 m

Summary When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth about his life as the notorious boss of Murder Inc. and the National Crime Syndicate.

Directed By: Eytan Rockaway

Written By: Eytan Rockaway, Robert Rockaway

  • 2021
  • R
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 59 m
  • 2021
  • R
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 59 m

Lansky

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth about his life as the notorious boss of Murder Inc. and the National Crime Syndicate.

Directed By: Eytan Rockaway

Written By: Eytan Rockaway, Robert Rockaway

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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29% Positive
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29% Negative
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70
Oct 13, 2021
Lanksy is a workman-like film with decent production values, but Rockaway is not Scorcese or Coppola. There are no great faults to find with it, except one: fans of the genre have literally seen every element of it before.
By Bradley Gibson FULL REVIEW
63
Jun 23, 2021
Lansky loses steam every time the focus is on somewhere other than Lansky.
By Richard Roeper FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 26, 2021
Keitel . . . infuses his performance here with more than enough lion-in-winter gravitas to dominate every moment he is on screen, and quite a few when he isn’t, which in turn is sufficient to propel Lansky through stretches when the passing of time is felt, and the budgetary limitations are obvious.
By Joe Leydon FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 25, 2021
Never as giddily awful as Gotti, this movie suffers more from a case of what film critic Andrew Sarris called “Strained Seriousness.” Except the ostensible seriousness here never runs particularly deep. Lansky is for Keitel completists only.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 24, 2021
Writer-director Rockaway (“The Abandoned”) hits all the major bullet points in the gangster’s life but ignores almost all the connective tissue that would make this outline of intriguing anecdotes really come alive.
By William Bibbiani FULL REVIEW
38
Jun 26, 2021
The mob movie tropes and cliches end up being the only memorable moments in Lansky, material so overfamiliar we can finish the lines before the actors do.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
30
Jun 24, 2021
The heart of this movie, directed by Eytan Rockaway, is the relationship between the writer and his subject. So it’s dismaying when Lansky turns out to include flashbacks, with John Magaro (“First Cow”) playing a much flatter version of the mobster as a young man.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

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Production Company 120dB Films, Above the Clouds, CaliWood Pictures, Carte Blanche, LB Entertainment, Lucky 13 Productions
Release Date Jun 25, 2021
Duration 1 h 59 m
Rating R
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