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Janet Maslin, New York Times: "Carlito's Way" is best watched as lively, colorful posturing and as a fine demonstration of this director's bravura visual style. Read more
Entertainment Weekly: A competent and solidly unsurprising urban-underworld thriller: De Palma's imitation of a middle-drawer Sidney Lumet movie. Read more
Michael Sragow, New Yorker: Penn, in curled hair and wire-rims, makes a brilliant, slippery high-end shyster; his modulated hysteria is amazing. So is Brian De Palma's direction. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: "Carlito's Way," like "Scarface," is first and last a character study, a portrait of a man who wants to be better than he is. Read more
Time Out: Pacino looks every inch a movie star, and De Palma provides a timely reminder of just how impoverished the Hollywood lexicon has become since the glory days of the '70s. Read more
Hal Hinson, Washington Post: About halfway through, the overwhelming fact that the movie is a complete nothing becomes too much to ignore. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Pacino has his moments but for the most part he's surprisingly underwhelming. He's a great actor but even I can do a better Puerto Rican accent. Read more