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Viewed today, while Scarface seems less shocking than it did during its initial theatrical run, it's no more substantive or interesting.

-James BerardinelliFull Review

What were Pacino's detractors hoping for? Something internal and realistic? Low key? The Tony Montana character is above all a performance artist, a man who exists in order to gloriously be himself.

-Roger EbertFull Review

I like it as a kind of B-movie version of The Godfather. There are a lot of classic lines and a handful of memorably horrific scenes ...

-Richard RoeperFull Review

The dominant mood of the film is anything but funny. It is bleak and futile: What goes up must always come down. When it comes down in Scarface, the crash is as terrifying as it is vivid and arresting.

-Vincent CanbyFull Review

...much, much longer than it generally needs to be...

-David NusairFull Review

One of the best gangster dramas ever made, driven by Pacino's haunting performance and De Palma's lightning pace.

-R. L. ShafferFull Review

It's a whole new spin on the immigrant story and the American Dream as an underworld nightmare and a fitting bookend to the two Godfather films.

-Sean AxmakerFull Review

the very definition of excess, which is perhaps why it has persisted so long as a cultural totem: Its florid pleasures can never be exhausted

-James KendrickFull Review

Paciono gives a riveting performance in the lead in De Palma's over-the-top but engaging modern version of the classic gangster

-Emanuel LevyFull Review

Extremely violent remake. Not for kids!

-David GurneyFull Review

Pacino's bravura performance dominates, making no concessions to our sensibilities. And the final shootout is a tour de force of editing.

-Full Review

Still a must-see for Pacino's potent and influential performance.

-Peter BradshawFull Review

Scarface has become a touchstone of pop culture, one of the half dozen or so most frequently referenced films of our era.

-Toby YoungFull Review

This almost Jacobean tale of drug gangsters in 1980s Miami is rather too long for the points it makes, but is nevertheless riveting and still, after 26 years, remarkably fresh.

-Peter WhittleFull Review

De Palma's film is now back on the big screen and looking better than ever.

-Philip FrenchFull Review

Pacino's drug-crazed, bloodshot performance gives this gangster movie a terrifying edge.

-Rob DanielFull Review

[Pacino's] grandstanding performance is still hard to resist and symbolises the baroque excess of this shockingly violent gangster classic.

-Allan HunterFull Review

As overrated as it is overlong.

-Full Review

To call the whole thing visceral is a palpable understatement.

-Derek MalcolmFull Review

Pacino, of course, goes way over the top and through the floor on the other side.

-Rob GonsalvesFull Review

Scarface could be the male moviegoer's answer to Mommie Dearest ... when it's not grotesquely melodramatic, it somehow manages to be incredibly dull.

-Felix Gonzalez Jr.Full Review

Although the film depicts a nightmarish world, it's also very funny.

-Martyn BamberFull Review

Painted in exuberant, extravagant swaths of red, Brian De Palma's foolhardy epic is a thing of delirious grandeur

-Jeffrey M. AndersonFull Review

An unashamed study of selfish, sadistic criminality, and all the better for it.

-Tom HuddlestonFull Review

Ugly and overrated

-Jon Niccum

What's left to say?

-Bill Clark

Any list of classic guy movies would be incomplete without an appearance from Brian De Palma's Scarface.

-Jamey CoddingFull Review

Sometime it fun.

-Philip Martin

Stylish ultra violence = one popular film for many, sad to say.

-Steve Crum


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