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15 Minutes

2001

John Herzfeld

Robert De Niro, Edward Burns, Kelsey Grammer, Avery Brooks ...

5.5

11,495

Thriller Robert De Niro is a police detective investigating a brutal murder committed by a psychopath who was seeking his 15 minutes of fame. As media sources are pulled into the case, a sensational atmosphere develops. Television reporters and tabloid journalists devour and exploit each new detail, obscuring the truth.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"A cynical, savage satire about violence, the media and depravity. It doesn't have the polish of 'Natural Born Killers' or the wit of 'Wag the Dog,' but it's a real movie, rough edges and all, and not another link from the sausage factory. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)."	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It's fleet- footed, merciless entertainment. But the mixture of laughs, bathos and brutality is a big turnoff."	NEG
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"A first-rate Hollywood entertainment--at least if one can accept the schizophrenia of combining a cop/buddy action thriller with an angry satire about the shamelessness of the media."	POS
United States	Jonathan Foreman New York Post	"Works just fine as a generic but fast-paced - and rather ugly - cop buddy flick."	NEU
United States	Mark Caro Chicago Tribune	"The surprise here isn't that 15 Minutes isn't a masterpiece; it's that the movie works at all."	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"The picture is more impressive as it goes along, revealing a symmetry of construction underneath the rudiments of a thriller"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Big, loud and lurid, but no less entertaining for that."	NEU

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