Director Ted Demme's colorful, vividly evocative biopic about the rise and fall of one-time American coke kingpin George Jung recalls the energy and period stylism of other blasts to the past.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 30, 2024

Although Depp has little range, he's acceptable in the lead - a source of calm and emotional steadiness, which contrasts the nervousness and paranoia of his associates.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 25, 2020

The first half of Blow is a shallow but lively fun ride; the audience gets a contact high. But when George's fortunes start to go from bad to worse, so does the movie.

Full Review | Mar 6, 2018

This is one of the few drug movies where you actually feel a little sorry for the drug-dealing coke-infested lead character.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Sep 12, 2017

Uneven drug trade story has explicit drug use.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2011

Johnny Depp gives a spellbindingly naturalistic performance that puts a sympathetic face on a powerfully individualistic man unable to shake a world of crime that brought him immense riches and eventually cost him everything he caredabout.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jul 16, 2009

Does the movie make us care? Not really, which is the movie's basic problem.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 5, 2008

Comes off like a flamboyant cartoon, another film about the deglamorization of glamorous people living it up in the glamorous world of drugs.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Sep 16, 2007

"Blow" isn't really a classic, but it's a sobering story well-told.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 23, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Johnny Depp stars and, despite some pretty awful makeup, nails his performance as George Jung.

Full Review | May 26, 2006

Rambling and confused, the film shows much concern for plot and not enough for characterization, particularly in second half which unfolds as a catalog of events. Misdirected, the usually reliable Depp gives a confused and scattered performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 29, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Tiene una edicin maravillosa, la fotografa es notable y la direccin bien lograda.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2005

A worthy companion to Traffic, which isn't all it's cracked up to be, either.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 10, 2005

Overall, Blow just blows.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 25, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 15, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 30, 2002