Swimming with Sharks 1994

Janet Maslin, New York Times: Mr. Spacey's Buddy is a caricature so dazzling that even Buddy might have to say something nice about it: cool, withering, studiously suave, and spurred by impulses that might seem peevish even in a 2-year-old child. Read more

Peter Rainer, Los Angeles Times: To outsiders, all this rage and gnashing of teeth may seem silly and self-absorbed. Read more

Entertainment Weekly: When Spacey goes ballistic, only to freeze the nitroglycerine in his veins a moment later, you don't want to look anywhere else. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: This excessively talky, incoherently plotted, would-be film noir is not very good. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: There doesn't seem to be enough material here to satisfy a full length feature, and the movie, which starts with such promise, begins to drag around its midpoint. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: [Huang's] plot may be overwritten and the ending may be less than satisfying, but his eye and ear are right. Read more

Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle: The film has no subtlety, so the one-dimensional story comes across as a sophomoric, pointless tirade. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: The picture's raison d'etre has to be Spacey's 'loud and nasty' performance: he's the sort of actor who grabs you by the throat and beats you about the head without ever lifting his feet from the desk. Read more