Scarface
Universal Pictures | Release Date: December 9, 1983 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
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Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
0
Negative:
2
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100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
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. Read full review
100
EmpireAndy Gill
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. Read full review
100
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
A beautiful, at times poetic exercise in excess from Brian De Palma. Read full review
90
The New York TimesVincent Canby
Scarface is the most stylish and provocative - and maybe the most vicious - serious film about the American underworld since Francis Ford Coppola's "Godfather." Read full review
80
TimeRichard Corliss
It is a serious, often hilarious peek under the rock where nightmares strut in $800 suits and Armageddon lies around the next twist of treason. Read full review
80
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Scarface is a grandiose modern morality play, excessive, broad and operatic at times. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay Scott
Scarface is a B- movie with singularly silly psychological pretensions: its neo-primitivism is to the complex moral cosmos of Francis Coppola's "Godfather" saga as Disney is to Dickens. [09 Dec 1983]
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