Click here to copy URL

Sea of Love

1989

Harold Becker

Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, William Hickey ...

6.4

5,993

Mystery. Thriller. Drama A serial killer chooses his victims among the men who put ads in the lonely hearts column of the NYC newspapers. Detectives Pacino and Goodman decide to place themselves an ad, hoping to find the killer they believe to be a woman. Pacino falls in love with Barkin, one of the women who's answered.

	Media	Author	Review
		Variety	"A suspenseful film noir boasting a superlative performance by Al Pacino (...) Handsome production benefits from a witty screenplay"
		Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"It's easy to have mixed feelings about 'Sea of Love,' to be frustrated and, at the same time, half in love with it"
		Ian Nathan Empire	"Never revealing too much, Becker keeps us intrigued to the end, whilst Pacino and Barkin unexpectedly sizzle (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"What impressed me most in the film was the personal chemistry between Pacino and Barkin (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"What sets this thriller apart from its fairly routine script and adequate direction are the wonderful performances of Pacino and Barkin"
		Time Out	"Efficient enough as a thriller, but what makes this mandatory viewing is the return of Pacino. There are isolated scenes as good as anything he's done"
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"A really quite bad movie (...) A lugubrious imitation of a second-rate television movie, over-produced and over-cast"
		Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"The kind of film that works as long as you ask nothing of it beyond simple escape (...) Superficial entertainment"
		Neal Gabler Entertainment Weekly	"The acting is delicate and intense. The movie buzzes with intensity, too"
		David Nusair Reel Film	"A decent piece of work that could (and should) have been so much better (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.