pulling the feels…
pulling the feels…
FLICKFEEL
50
from 49 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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FUN
41
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
51
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Nobody has rated this on FlickFeel yet. This is public discussion of this title, read into a curve. It is not a rating and it never becomes one.
Read from 49 comments (48 from Metacritic, 1 from TMDB reviews) — 7 of them described how it moves.
Thin evidence — the shape below rests on 7 comments. The shaded band is how wide the uncertainty actually is, and it is drawn to scale.
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“you experience for the whole 2 hours”
KelvinSelimor · Metacritic ↗
“With a unlikable cast I stopped caring what happened and gave up two”
MeritCoba · Metacritic ↗
“The ending was almost an anti-climax, (being a mindless shoot-out)”
i_love_Revenge · Metacritic ↗
“This started out as a serious gangster movie”
Pomegranate23 · Metacritic ↗
“ended in a wild west shooting style”
Pomegranate23 · Metacritic ↗
“a pretty good ending”
ICEExMagic · Metacritic ↗
Read 26 Aug 2026 · confidence 58% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
“The best thing about Gangster Squad is how they got the 1940s accoutrements right.”
Rex Reed, Observer · 75
“Gangster Squad is a gang war drama built on Western conventions, a rootin' tootin', Camel-smokin', whiskey swillin' shoot'em up.”
Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service · 75
“The cops play things as dirty as the crooks in Gangster Squad, an impressively pulpy underworld-plunger that embellishes on a 1949 showdown between a dedicated team of LAPD officers and Mob-connected Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) for control of the city.”
Peter Debruge, Variety · 70
“Gangster Squad provides a welcome burst of heat and color, even if those qualities are more illusory than real and subject to a fast fade.”
James Berardinelli, ReelViews · 63
“Penn's over-the-top tirades and bullying threats are still there - it's a wild and woolly performance that isn't always as menacing as perhaps the actor intended it to be.”
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer · 63
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 26 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
it plays better than it reviews — critics 35, the watch 50
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“you experience for the whole 2 hours”
KelvinSelimorabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“With a unlikable cast I stopped caring what happened and gave up two”
MeritCobaabout 66–100% inread it ↗
“The ending was almost an anti-climax, (being a mindless shoot-out)”
i_love_Revengeabout 80–100% inread it ↗
“This started out as a serious gangster movie”
Pomegranate23about 0–50% inread it ↗
“Rat-a-tat-tat! Gangster Squad is directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Will Beal. It stars Josh Brolin, Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Nick Nolte, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Patrick and Michael Pena. Music is by Steve Jablonski and cinematography by Dion Beebee. Los Angeles is being brought to its knees by crime boss Mickey Cohen (Penn). In one of the darkened offices of the police department, a special squad of officers is being assembled. Given free licence to br”
John Chardread it ↗
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