Kim Newman: Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai (15). In: Empire. Abgerufen am 4. Februar 2023 (englisch): „[…] full of moments of stifled hilarity […] the real action is in the pauses, when Whitaker is on screen doing nothing in an extremely expressive manner“
J. Hoberman: Into the Void. In: The Village Voice. 29. Februar 2000, abgerufen am 19. Februar 2009 (englisch): „exercise in fathomless cool […] From The Color of Money through The Crying Game, the actor has created some of the most vivid character performances of the past 15 years“