3/5

Like much of the story of Harlem in the '70s, the truth is the least important part.

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12/19/07

N/A

The principle at issue may not be plain to everyone, but "to those people inside the system of values, that's totally acceptable."

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11/14/07

3/4

Does the movie glorify Barnes and his nefarious profession? Probably, but show me a movie about the drug trade that doesn't hook us first with guts and glamour before the moralizing fall.

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11/09/07

5/10

A lackluster documentary that lionizes this creep while ignoring the damage that his distribution of drugs did to society and the many brutal murders he ordered.

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10/27/07

3/4

What emerges is a portrait of a complex man.

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10/26/07

N/A

Sometimes persuasive and sometimes sadly comical, but always fascinating.

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10/26/07

2.5/4

Levin was clearly captivated by the sheer spectacle of Barnes' career.

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10/26/07

3/4

It's not a pretty picture, but it sure is a compelling one.

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10/26/07

3/4

Mr. Untouchable is never dull.

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10/26/07

B

On its own, Mr. Untouchable is a solid education on a specific period of time reigned over by a demon who willingly spread sickness to line his pockets.

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10/26/07

N/A

What is most intriguing in the film are the words, indeed the presence, of Barnes himself.

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10/25/07

B

Legendary '70s heroin kingpin Leroy "Nicky" Barnes is filmed like a deposed king in exile in Mr. Untouchable, Marc Levin's slick look at one of New York's most notorious criminal masterminds.

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10/25/07

N/A

It's fast and furious, and it proves that crime doesn't pay, unless you know how to do it right.

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10/25/07

3/4

Nonjudgmental without being morally dense, the film makes human sense out of an inhuman example of addiction capitalism, '70s style.

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10/25/07

2/4

Marc Levin, whose last documentary, Protocols of Zion, was a gutsy examination of post-9/11 anti-Semitism, has an even tougher job on his hands with Leroy 'Nicky' Barnes: making the man interesting.

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10/25/07

2.5/5

Isn't an inside look at the men who ruled a city but just an excuse to collect 'Superfly,' 'Sexual Healing' and 'Let's Stay Together' on a soundtrack.

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10/25/07

N/A

A fascinating first-person account of drug kingpin and ruthless gangster Nicky Barnes, whose outrageous story of rise, rule, rage, and revenge requires no such stylistic filler.

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10/23/07