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Andy Webster, New York Times: To borrow Robert Evans's famous quotation about "The Godfather," you can smell the spaghetti, but less sauce might have helped. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: As a tale of squabbling gangsters and prison intrigues, "Angel of Evil" is ordinary. Read more
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: Gangster cliches fly like submachine gun bullets in the Italian crime biopic "Angel of Evil," a restless and hollow rundown of '70s criminal Renato Vallanzasca. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: What is missing is any sort of psychological insight. Just what made Renato run? You won't find out here. Read more
David Jenkins, Time Out: Terrible orch-rock soundtrack aside, it makes for an engrossing if hollow romp. Read more
Ernest Hardy, Village Voice: You can all but feel the checklist being marked off, and the viewer is never really drawn into the world or made to care what's happening. Read more