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Kill 'em All
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Public Enemies
Directed by Michael Mann
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive. From TMDB
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Public Enemies is a 2009 crime history drama film, directed by Michael Mann, starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard.
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60 of 141 · most liked firstMichael Mann, BOTD 2/5/43, may not have directed tons of films...but some all-time bangers! 1979 Jericho Mile 📺 (Emmy win) 1981 Thief 1986 Manhunter 1992 Last of the Mohicans ❤️ 1995 Heat ❤️ 1999 Insider (Oscar nom) 2001 Ali 2004 Collateral 2006 Miami Vice 2009 Public Enemies #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →PUBLIC ENEMIES, because if my take hadn't annoyed all my Facebook friends so much, I probably never would've become a film critic, which gave me the chance to annoy so, so many more people
neutral · AI labelView post →Michael Mann, BOTD 2/5/1943, may not have directed ton of films...but some all-time bangers! 1979 Jericho Mile 📺 (Emmy win-find it!) 1981 Thief 1986 Manhunter 1992 Last of the Mohicans 1995 Heat 1999 Insider (Oscar nom) 2001 Ali 2004 Collateral 2006 Miami Vice 2009 Public Enemies #filmsky 📽🎥🎞🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →I worked in a library in college. I once got a call from the people working on Public Enemies - the movie about John Dillinger - seeking information on historical maps of Sioux Falls because they were looking at doing a scene set in the town.
neutral · AI labelView post →The "Superman/Batman: Public Enemies" animated movie debuted on this day (Sept. 29) in 2009! Batman and Superman become outlaws when President Luthor calls for their arrest in this adaptation of the fan-fave arc from the Superman/Batman comic series by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness! #Batman #Superman
neutral · AI labelView post →The "Superman/Batman: Public Enemies" animated movie debuted on this day (Sept. 29) in 2009! Adapting the fan-favorite Superman/Batman comic arc by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness, of the same name, President Lex Luthor calls for the arrest of Batman and Superman! #Batman #Superman
neutral · AI labelView post →It is extremely weird to me that so many folks think that this correctly beloved movie is somehow manifestly different from later period Mann stuff like MIAMI VICE or PUBLIC ENEMIES. I assure you that it is not. It is exactly as oblique and mannered.
neutral · AI labelView post →Superman/Batman: Public Enemies feels like the anime movie of the DCAU ^ Sentence that has been percolating in my head for the last 20 minutes
neutral · AI labelView post →the book "PUBLIC ENEMIES" is very good about this, the movie adaptation missed a lot of the structural details
neutral · AI labelView post →Gave a talk today just down the street from this 1920 beauty—its interior featured in "Public Enemies," a (very slow) movie that dramatizes the final moments of John Dillinger, played by Johnny Depp.
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching "Public Enemies" - from director Michael Mann📽️ I've put this off for far too long /Bilbo Baggins voice
neutral · AI labelView post →140. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies A really fun, briskly paced action film with some great voicework, and a story that hits uncomfortably close to home with a LOT going on in the world right now.
neutral · AI labelView post →I grew up like 10 miles from here. This historic town featured in many of the outdoor scenes of the Johnny Depp film Public Enemies
neutral · AI labelView post →The Professor is related to the dude who killed Dillinger, Melvin Purvis, who was later played by Christian Bale in the Michael Mann movie, PUBLIC ENEMIES. Pretty wild.
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie "Enemies of the Nation" 2009 Public Enemies 2009 Score: 7/10 Genre: Crime Country: #America No censorship and omissions Synopsis: The movie tells the story of a man named John Dellinger tells the story of Johnny (Depp) in the 1930s, who is known as Robin Hood, the master of thieves.
neutral · AI labelView post →On the fifth episode of our heist mini-series, One Last Score, we were joined by film critic Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social to discuss Michael Mann's Public Enemies: open.spotify.com/episode/3QFq...
neutral · AI labelView post →You see this is the problem with the movie "Public Enemies" because although it looks like Chicago it was filmed in Wisconsin. So you'll get me and a Chicagian yappying in your ears and it'll entirely be lies
neutral · AI labelView post →Moving Kryptonian Images continues with Superman/Batman: Public Enemies! @donoDMG1 joins me to talk about the movie & the comic! It All Comes Back to Superman Series 2 is on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, and IHeartRadio! #Superman podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
neutral · AI labelView post →(Superman/Batman: Public Enemies) Good film but everyone kept trying to convince me it was yaoi (it’s not)
positive · AI labelView post →haven’t revisited Public Enemies since I saw it in theaters but I just saw a clip of a gunfight and I’m gonna have to go back and reevaluate this movie
neutral · AI labelView post →The Superman/Batman comic series is the first that I remember being absolutely obsessed with, and I especially love the Public Enemies arc because it’s the basis for my favorite DC animated film.
neutral · AI labelView post →#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge April 26 - movie or TV character played by Channing Tatum Pretty Boy Floyd - Public Enemies (2009) #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →Some of my favourites: Dee Brown - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Alexander Stille - Excellent Cadavers Adam Hochschild - King Leopold’s Ghost Simon Winchester - Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded Bryan Burrough - Public Enemies (better than the film) Tom Wolfe - The Right Stuff (love the film too)
neutral · AI labelView post →A friend of a friend once met Christian Bale on the set of Public Enemies and told him he thought American Psycho was the best movie he'd ever seen. Bale responded, "Want to know what I think? I think you need to see more movies."
neutral · AI labelView post →Getting through at at least one more film off my Superman list tonight, and this time it's Superman/Batman: Public Enemies. Not gonna lie, the art style on this one is...not winning me over at first glance.
neutral · AI labelView post →If DC ever makes another Batman and Superman movie it should be a buddy movie possibly based off Public Enemies.
neutral · AI labelView post →PUBLIC ENEMIES. Doesn't even mention Christmas, although it's the only Michael Mann movie in which it snows.
neutral · AI labelView post →I know PUBLIC ENEMIES isn’t the most popular Mann film but Depp and Cotillard’s chemistry is off the charts and I’m captivated away by digital cameras thrust into the Great Depression and it’s sweeping romanticism.
positive · AI labelView post →Not one I connected with all the way through, but the violence carried it for me. My ★★★½ review of Public Enemies on Letterboxd boxd.it/etzVAN #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →some Mann fans are weird about Collateral because it was the first movie he shot digitally and they don't like the way it looks, but imho that doesn't make it a lesser Michael Mann film. on some days it's my favorite. (Public Enemies, however, is truly not one of his best.)
negative · AI labelView post →On this day in movie history: Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film documentary directed by Constantine Nasr released October 21, 2008. Cast: Alec Baldwin, Rudy Behlmer, Robert Benton, Sheri Chinen Biesen, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, John Bright, Daniel Bubbeo, James Cagney. #Noir
neutral · AI labelView post →At some point there's a Green Lantern movie in the thread But to continue on... we get Superman/Batman Public Enemies.
neutral · AI labelView post →Film surfing and Reviewing. Just watched the 2009 Michael Mann directed-Dante Spinotti shot (both brilliant) PUBLIC ENEMIES, re prolific 1930’s bank robber, John Dillinger (Johnny Depp pre idiosyncrasies). Historically & musically accurate including powerful if too-brief Black artists, 30’s - 2000s.
positive · AI labelView post →After being supremely let down by Public Enemies and blackhat, I am overjoyed to once again love a Michael Mann movie.
negative · AI labelView post →This week on S&A we talked 2009's Public Enemies. Whic, yes is all the place, but it never stops moving. From prison escapes, bank robberies shoot outs this is a movie in constant motion. Which reflects Dillenger's life and death. Listen to Schlock &Awe on your favourite Podcast App
neutral · AI labelView post →#Bales2026FilmChallenge #Bales2026MovieChallenge Sept. 30 - a movie featuring Marion Cotillard Public Enemies (2009) #filmsky #moviesky ...as Evelyn 'Billie' Trechette, the woman John Dillinger fell in love with...
neutral · AI labelView post →Film-wise: at 9, Nightcrawler on Sky Atlantic, Public Enemies on Film4 or In The Line Of Fire on LegendXtra. At 9.55, Mort d’un Pourri on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social At 10, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon on TLC. At 11.10, Emily on BBC1. At 11.45, Heat on Film4. At 11.55, Monkey Man on BBC3 #telly
neutral · AI labelView post →Freeview (UK) #film of the day : Michael Mann's involving biographical crime drama Public Enemies (2009 134 mins.) Starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and the always excellent Marion Cotillard. [Film4 21.00 & +1 / streaming on the Channel 4 app] letterboxd.com/film/public-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Agreed. Public Enemies is one Michael Mann film that simply doesn’t work. Bryan Burrough’s non-fiction book is superb, and unlike the movie, thoroughly contrapuntal, cutting back and forth between Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson, Bonnie & Clyde, Barker / Karpis Gang.
negative · AI labelView post →That movie made me doubt my life long fandom of Michael Mann, even more so than “Public Enemies.”
negative · AI labelView post →Is this maybe the most for-heads-only Mann film in either cut? I dunno I'm still waiting for PUBLIC ENEMIES to get the full reclamation it justly deserves.
positive · AI labelView post →My ★★★★ review of Public Enemies on @letterboxd: boxd.it/WqRWL
positive · AI labelView post →Superman (2025) Superman: The Movie (1978) Superman vs the Elite Superman/Batman: Public Enemies Superman: Man of Tomorrow Honorable mention: Disney's Hercules.
neutral · AI labelView post →Public Enemies has Dillinger watch what just looks like a bluray of a Myrna Loy film and I was kind of into it given how the rest of the film is shot
positive · AI labelView post →Public Enemies is a film of absolutely incredible single moments - i'm a defender but i understand why others don't like it
neutral · AI labelView post →The Superman/Batman: Apocalypse movie is better than its predecessor Superman/Batman: Public Enemies-both of which I watched today lol. Tho bats was such a bitch to Kara for no reason lmao.
neutral · AI labelView post →62/365 Public Enemies (2009) | Ticket Stub Movie Club 🎟 Patreon.com/ticketstubmovieclub #publicenemies #michaelmann #johnnydepp #christianbale
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s basically exactly like the Superman/Batman Public Enemies animated movie so it’s pretty good, very gay
neutral · AI labelView post →Ooo! Thanks for the recommendations, I’ll definitely add them to my list. I usually enjoy gangster movies, but Public Enemies (the movie) never really interested me.
negative · AI labelView post →I have a copy of that book that is autographed by the author. It's a great book!!! If you like that, you need to read Empire of the Summer Moon, and Public Enemies. Empire is about Quanah Parker, the last Comanche war chief. Public the movie sucks compared to the book.
neutral · AI labelView post →Wow this movie well lit - it almost feels like you're in a fort at night. Dante Spinotti also lensed Heat, The Insider, Public Enemies and Manhunter for Mann - and LA Confidential #hatm
neutral · AI labelView post →Think I might want to do an oldschool gangster picture. I have been stuck in that mood, lately, thanks to Boardwalk Empire, and now currently watching a favorite movie of mine, Public Enemies
positive · AI labelView post →Work strikes me as *cold* or detached (with the exception of Last of the Mohicans, which I think was a personal statement for him and not something he was examining) That doesn't bother me at all, but it does mean you aren't going into a Mann crime film to have fun. Public Enemies, Heat, Thief
neutral · AI labelView post →A film that takes place where you're from No movies take place specifically in Eau Claire. But Public Enemies was filmed in Oshkosh, Manitowish Waters, and Milwaukee. Side note for MSTies: The Giant Spider Invasion was set in Merrill, Wisconsin. Episode is a classic!
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★½ review of Public Enemies on Letterboxd
positive · AI labelView post →Before they make a full on Justice League film I hope we get a proper World's Finest movie and I hope it's based off Superman/Batman Public Enemies. I think it's a perfect comic to adapt into a movie and the worlds finest duo is how you should introduce team up movies in a DCU.
neutral · AI labelView post →#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched Watched or rewatched a bunch of Michael Mann movies this week. Public Enemies looks so good, but is super dull. The three stars is for the fact I’d probably like it as much on mute.
negative · AI labelView post →Is there an American director who handled the shift from film to digital better than Michael Mann? Watching PUBLIC ENEMIES and struck by just how beautifully shot it is
positive · AI labelView post →Watching Public Enemies and realizing I'd absolutely get shot by Dillinger & co. for telling them to STFU while they're talking in a movie theater
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ll give Public Enemies a rewatch. I didn’t like it at the cinema. Can’t recall why, just didn’t gel with me. But I’ll give it a go. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a lovingly shot LA film. While it’s only set in LA in the back half of the film, True Romance is pure, pure LA
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