
Policeman Bob Gold has to capture a murderer that not even the FBI has been able to find. But before he can even start he is re-assigned to the murder of an old Jewish lady in a black area. The evidence points at a Jewish hate group and he discovers connections between them and his previous case.... (Full plot summary below)
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Policeman Bob Gold has to capture a murderer that not even the FBI has been able to find. But before he can even start he is re-assigned to the murder of an old Jewish lady in a black area. The evidence points at a Jewish hate group and he discovers connections between them and his previous case.
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| The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayTelevision tends to trump movies when it comes to staging richly detailed cop dramas, but David Mamet’s 1991 film Homicide is the rare big-screen policier that can stand up to The Shield, The Wire, Hill Street Blues, and Homicide: Life On The Street. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrThe movie crackles with energy and life, and with throwaway slang dialogue by Mamet, who takes realistic speech patterns and simplifies them into a kind of hammer-and-nail poetry. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversPurposely out of step with the feel-good-movie era, he offers caustic wit instead of gags, blunt questions instead of glib answers and challenges instead of reassurances. Bless him. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonDavid Mamet's Homicide is a brilliant muddle: compelling, exhilarating and, at the same time, profoundly dubious. Certainly there is greatness in it. And just as certainly the moral ice it skates on is precariously thin. It leads us into a forest of dark contradictions, then leaves us stranded, dazzled but bewildered, elated but perplexed. |
| RogerEbert.comRoger EbertThe movie crackles with energy and life, and with throwaway slang dialogue by Mamet, who takes realistic speech patterns and simplifies them into a kind of hammer-and-nail poetry. |
| Time OutBillie CohenUnfortunately, the transitions are sometimes abrupt and unconvincing, despite Mantegna's intensity. |
| PopMattersChris BarsantiIn Homicide's electric pop of language, Mamet provides a grand kind of stage for the ugly catalyst of jealousy and racial hatred that curdles in just about every character's mind. |
| Chicago TribuneDave KehrThe Pulitzer-winning playwright’s movies are often a few steps ahead of their audiences, but Homicide seems to have intuitively anticipated its now-exemplary status. |
| USA TodayMike ClarkMamet’s direction gives much of the film a bracing, refreshing tone as he works to express the shattering tensions of Gold’s work. |
| Movie MetropolisChristopher LongThe doomy mood of the final scenes packs a wallop that's missing from Mamet's more contrived narratives. |