Scarface (1983)

Variety
"...SCARFACE is a grandiose modern morality play....[The film] possesses an engaging topicality and packs a punch..." 11/30/1983

USA Today
"...Pfeiffer, now as then, steals the show..." 02/05/1993 p.3D

Entertainment Weekly
"...[It's] fun to simply enjoy this amazing Al Pacino vehicle for the bloody, politically incorrect, relentlessly macho potboiler that it is..." 05/23/2003 p.29

Sight and Sound
"...Still perhaps De Palma's most genuinely convincing work..." 03/01/2001 p.64

Chicago Sun-Times
"...An exciting crime picture....A gallery of wonderful supporting performances....SCARFACE is a wonderful portrait of a real louse..." 09/19/2003 p.38

Total Film
"...Pacino plays the odious Tony Montana with a dead-on mix of predatory steel and flawed flashiness..." 04/01/2001 p.106

Movieline's Hollywood Life
"...This Brian DePalma butcher block has found a thriving life of its own..." 12/01/2003 p.116

Premiere
"[A] brilliant, bloody Prohibition-era gangster movie..." 12/01/2003 p.13

Ultimate DVD
5 stars out of 5 -- "It's undoubtedly the larger than life quality of the film which pleases many, but young turk Oliver Stone also delivers a potent screenplay..." 12/01/2006 p.202

Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
The interesting thing is the way Tony Montana stays in the memory, taking on the dimensions of a real, tortured person. Most thrillers use interchangeable characters, and most gangster movies are more interested in action than personality, but 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. Maybe it's no coincidence that Montana is played by Al Pacino, the same actor who played Michael Corleone. - Roger Ebert