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Any Given Sunday **** (1999, Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Cameron Diaz, Jamie Foxx, L L Cool J) – Classic Movie Review 1561

Co-writer/director Oliver Stone’s 1999 sports movie Any Given Sunday finds Al Pacino on blistering form as Tony D’Amato, an ageing crusty veteran professional football coach who has obsessively sacrificed his wife, family and personal life for […]

Aug, 17

Sea of Love **** (1989, Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman) – Classic Movie Review 1513

Director Harold Becker’s sizzling 1989 thriller Sea of Love is arguably his finest movie, though City Hall (1996) comes a very near second. Al Pacino is on his best form as love-crazed cop Detective Frank Keller, […]

Aug, 03

City Hall **** (1996, Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello, Martin Landau, David Paymer, Anthony Franciosa) – Classic Movie Review 1508

Director Harold Becker’s 1996 true-story drama exposes shame and scandal in New York city as an innocent child is killed in the crossfire by a stray bullet when a drug dealer and an undercover cop shoot […]

Aug, 02

The Devil’s Advocate **** (1997, Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones, Judith Ivey, Craig T Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 1,408

‘Vanity – definitely my favourite sin.’ Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves sizzle in director Taylor Hackford’s thrilling 1997 supernatural horror mystery thriller film The Devil’s Advocate, based on Andrew Neiderman’s 1990 novel. Hackford ensures that […]

Jul, 09

Carlito’s Way ***** (1993, Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo, Viggo Mortensen, Adrian Pasdar, Ingrid Rogers, Luis Guzman, James Rebhorn) – Classic Movie Review 1237

Director Brian De Palma’s 1993 movie Carlito’s Way is a masterly mob thriller, a worthy successor to his own Scarface and The Untouchables, with some of his greatest set pieces. His Scarface star Al Pacino gives […]

May, 21

Serpico ***** (1973, Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Tony Roberts, M Emmet Walsh, F Murray Abraham) – Classic Movie Review 1190

Director Sidney Lumet’s edge-of-seat 1973 real-life film about corruption in the New York Police Department stars a perfectly cast 33-year-old Al Pacino in a scalding, mesmerising performance as plain-clothes cop New York Frank Serpico cop […]

May, 09

Dog Day Afternoon ***** (1975, Al Pacino, John Cazale, Chris Sarandon, Lance Henriksen, Charles Durning, Carol Kane, Sully Boyar) – Classic Film Review 1189

Director Sidney Lumet’s 1975 classic Dog Day Afternoon is a complex, adult and exhilarating crime thriller based on a then recent real-life event, the robbery of the Chase Manhattan Bank in Gravesend, Brooklyn, by John […]

May, 09

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