Quiz: How well do you know your movie gangsters?

Public Enemies is one of the most eagerly awaited movies of the summer precisely because it’s not your usual blockbuster. It’s about a real criminal — John Dillinger — and stars two guys who like to go big in movies, but not explosions and special-effects big.

Johnny Depp likes to make his characters completely inhabit the screen, yet somehow, he doesn’t quite chew the scenery. And Michael Mann makes his movies stand out with style and gives them some sort of touch that lets his audience know this is not your usual movie.

In both men’s cases, the movies they make can be divisive to critics — some thinking that Mann values style too highly over substance, some thinking that Depp can be too much of a caricature, etc.

Public Enemies scored a 61 at Rotten Tomatoes, and a 71 on Metacritic.

• FilmBlather’s Eugene Novikov called the film ‘one of the most interesting and challenging wide releases of the year’: “(Public Enemies) uses the gangster movie form to say something profound and unexpected about the way we respond to evil.”

• Sean O’Connell of Carolina Weekly says Mann gets wrapped up in the Dillinger hype: “(Mann) is more enamored with the Dillinger myth than with the actual man.”

• Devin Faraci of CHUD (Cinematic Happenings Under Development) says the movie feels like a sequel without a first film: “The movie plays like a rise and fall story (sort of like Soderbergh’s Che, which was split into two halves) but there’s no rise.”

• Lest we forget that Depp’s in the movie, Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News paints him as the hero of the situation, basically saving things: “Johnny Depp is so compelling and charismatic as John Dillinger, he provides enough firepower to make the film legit.”

Ice Age: Rise of the Dinosaurs: The third in the series about a group of prehistoric animals isn’t exactly getting the kind of strong critical love of animated counterparts such as Up.

It only scores a 35 on Rotten Tomatoes and a 51 on Metacritic.

Keith Phipps of The Onion’s AV Club says the film actually tosses out what made the series special in the first place: “Let other movies have their velociraptors and their T. Rexes — here was a movie happily filled with mammoths and saber-toothed cats. The series kept it going for one more entry, but throws its commitment to the era away with movie number three, a ploy sure to anger Ice Age purists everywhere.”

Apparently, there are buttons even Bruno won’t push. The makers of Sasha Baron Cohen’s new film have decided to excise a scene making fun of Michael Jackson, according to Total Film.

In the scene, Bruno calls Michael’s sister, LaToya, and makes fun of her brother’s voice and tries to get his phone number. The scene was in pre-press screenings but won’t make the final print.

• What’s cooler than playing one famous real gangster? Playing two in quick succession.

Fresh off his part as Baby Face Nelson in Michael Mann’s epic Public Enemies, Stephen Graham jumps into the extremely juicy role of Al Capone in Martin Scorsese’s upcoming TV series, “Boardwalk Empire”.

Graham, a Brit who also made a memorable turn in the jarring This is England, talks with Empire about maintaining a New York accent: “I spend all my time with the teamsters, the drivers, because they’re all from New York. I hang around with them and eat Italian food.”

• Amy Adams joins an already strong cast in the upcoming “The Fighter”, according to the MTV Movies Blog. Mark Wahlberg is playing true-life boxer “Irish” Micky Ward, while Christian Bale is Ward’s trainer and brother. Adams is a tough-as-nails paramour for Micky, who won the world welterweight title in London and is well-known for his three epic fights with Arturo Gatti.

• Diane Keaton was injured on the set of the film Morning Glory. She bumped her head, but she is OK, according to AccessAtlanta.

However, the circumstances surrounding the injury have me worried. Apparently she was filming a scene in a sumo suit. This can’t end well.