Reception
Heat was well received by critics, earning an 86% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 76 on Metacritic. Roger Ebert gave the film 3½ stars out of 4, writing: "It's not just an action picture. Above all, the dialogue is complex enough to allow the characters to say what they're thinking: They are eloquent, insightful, fanciful, poetic when necessary. They're not trapped with cliches. Of the many imprisonments possible in our world, one of the worst must be to be inarticulate — to be unable to tell another person what you really feel."
Heat was listed as the 38th greatest film in history in Empire's 2008 list of the "500 Greatest Movies of All Time".
American Film Institute Lists
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills — Nominated
- AFI's 10 Top 10 — Nominated Gangster Film
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