Sexy Beast | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

There's something appealing about the films sometimes clumsy energy, where a stylistic flourish doesn't require an advanced intellectual metaphor because there's feeling behind it.

Very much like its antihero, this is a movie that occasionally gets caught between two worlds. But it does so with such swagger that it's hard to begrudge its wicked ways.

A crime film like no other, Sexy Beast is composed of moments of startling audacity, visual and dramatic, that arrive in waves, just long enough for you to catch your breath before the next.

The movie needs to be seen for its clean compositions, for its sure touch of fantasy, and, above all, for the forbidding presence of Kingsley-the prince of darkness, lightly disguised as a human being.

[Jonathan] Glazer's brilliant reimagining of the crime drama is character and performance driven, with a capital C and P.