Every indulgence, including a two hour and 14 minute running time, is on display.

A handsomely produced, mostly riveting, but ultimately overlong and overindulgent gangster picture.

A hugely impressive piece of work for a young director previously known for his documentary U2 Rattle and Hum.

… a stone cold classic in its own right…while most gangster films are nostalgic throwbacks to serve an audience of old men, State of Grace updates, recycles and revitalises cliches by firmly setting the narrative in the present, or at least 1990…