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Scarface

1983

Brian De Palma

Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio ...

8.2

93,339

Drama Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia and incestuous desire for his kid sister (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) prove his undoing. Michelle Pfeiffer plays Tonys neglected coke-addicted trophy wife, and Steven Bauer is his concerned friend. F. Murray Abraham, Robert Loggia, and Paul Shenar are some of Tonys sleazy ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"'Scarface' is the most stylish and provocative - and maybe the most vicious - serious film about the American underworld since Francis Ford Coppola's 'Godfather'."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'Scarface' is one of those special movies, like 'The Godfather', that is willing to take a flawed, evil man and allow him to be human. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Variety	"Performances are all extremely effective, with Pacino leading the way."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Still a must-see for Pacino's potent and influential performance. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Huddleston Time Out	"An unashamed study of selfish, sadistic criminality, and all the better for it. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Slant	"'Scarface' has the impressive filmmaking triumvirate of De Palma, Stone, and Pacino (...) Although the film depicts a nightmarish world, it’s also very funny (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Andy Gill Empire	"Perfomances are excellent, and despite its moralistic conclusion, the film has since become de rigueur viewing for crack barons, who know a good shoot-em-up when they see one (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Nick Hilditch BBC	"From an Oliver Stone script that allows for no tedium (...) This is very much a film of the 80s in its portrayal not of moral decline (...) but of unstoppable ego-centrism (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kathleen Carroll New York Daily News	"The movie reduces a truly grave problem, the alarming success of Miami’s drug peddlers (...) [Montana] is just a cartoon monster, an excuse for De Palma to show off his obvious talent for staging shoot-outs."	NEG

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