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A stark, nuanced portrait of life in organized crime, bolstered by strong performances from Al Pacino and Johnny Depp.
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This is Depp's coming-of-age role, and he's terrific. Pacino, who's shown more flash than substance recently, reminds us how great he can be when he loses himself inside a character. February 28, 2018 | Full Review…
This is Depp's coming-of-age role, and he's terrific. Pacino, who's shown more flash than substance recently, reminds us how great he can be when he loses himself inside a character.
David Ansen
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Owen Gleiberman
Although perhaps familiar in its outer trappings, Pacino's fine work is the key to the film succeeding to the extent that it does. November 20, 2008
Although perhaps familiar in its outer trappings, Pacino's fine work is the key to the film succeeding to the extent that it does.
Todd McCarthy
A tense, sharp and compelling character study, Newell's film is a worthy addition to the Mob-movie canon. January 26, 2006 | Full Review…
A tense, sharp and compelling character study, Newell's film is a worthy addition to the Mob-movie canon.
Unfortunately, the story isn't inventive and Newell's methodical approach to it verges on monotony. August 14, 2002 | Full Review…
Unfortunately, the story isn't inventive and Newell's methodical approach to it verges on monotony.
Rita Kempley
A first-class Mafia thriller that is also, in its way, a love story. June 18, 2002 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
A first-class Mafia thriller that is also, in its way, a love story.
Mick LaSalle
A clever insight into the everyday, professional banalities of life as a low to mid-level gangster. February 22, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A clever insight into the everyday, professional banalities of life as a low to mid-level gangster.
PJ Nabarro
A gritty and humorous crime drama about an undercover cop infiltrating the Mafia. January 29, 2010 | Rating: A | Full Review…
A gritty and humorous crime drama about an undercover cop infiltrating the Mafia.
Dennis Schwartz
Depp's tight, guarded performance is almost painful to watch, and Newell seems to have reined in the flamboyant Pacino, whose portrait of the mobster as a grumpy old man may be his best work in years. June 20, 2009 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Depp's tight, guarded performance is almost painful to watch, and Newell seems to have reined in the flamboyant Pacino, whose portrait of the mobster as a grumpy old man may be his best work in years.
Maitland McDonagh
It's tempting to think Pacino stopped trying sometime in the mid-1980s. But watch Lefty's elegiac final scene and you might conclude that it's not Al's ability that's dimmed, rather it's the imagination of casting directors that's grown stale. June 20, 2009 | Full Review…
It's tempting to think Pacino stopped trying sometime in the mid-1980s. But watch Lefty's elegiac final scene and you might conclude that it's not Al's ability that's dimmed, rather it's the imagination of casting directors that's grown stale.
[Newell and Attanasio] pay as much attention to emotional details as to the clockwork details of mob life. July 30, 2007 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
[Newell and Attanasio] pay as much attention to emotional details as to the clockwork details of mob life.
Rob Gonsalves
Just misses ranking in the upper echelon of mob movies. May 9, 2007 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Just misses ranking in the upper echelon of mob movies.
Chuck O'Leary
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