Al Pacino Archives

Cruising (1980)

Rating: ★★

Mar 11, 2001Serial Killer/Gay Subculture

Controversial William Friedkin film in which Al Pacino plays a straight cop who must go undercover in New York's gay leather and S&M community to hunt a serial killer. This holds back little in its portrayal of the scene.

Director: William Friedkin

Actors: Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox, …

Category: Horror

11 March 20013 October 2025 by Roog

Sea of Love (1989)

Rating: ★★★★½

May 11, 2001Psycho-Thriller/Romance

Standout thriller with great scripting and performances where detective Al Pacino goes undercover in the dating scene to track a killer and comes up against a sultry Ellen Barkin

Director: Harold Becker

Actors: Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Richard Jenkins, …

Category: Horror

11 May 20017 March 2025 by Roog

Dick Tracy (1990)

Rating: ★★

Aug 13, 2001Comic-Book Detective

The Warren Beatty directed and starring adaptation of the popular newspaper comic-strip detective proved a flop. Beatty creates a highly stylised world and peoples it with an all-star cast but fails to invest the world with any depth

Director: Warren Beatty

Actors: Warren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino, Charlie Korsmo, …

Category: Fantasy

13 August 200118 January 2026 by Roog

The Devil’s Advocate (1997)

Rating: ★★★½

Aug 23, 2009The Devil is a Lawyer

Despite a premise that sounds more like the punchline of a lawyer joke – The Devil (Al Pacino) is a high-price lawyer in New York – this is lushly produced, played seriously and with surprising theological depths

Director: Taylor Hackford

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Judith Ivey, …

Category: Fantasy

23 August 200927 January 2026 by Roog

S1m0ne (2002)

Rating: ★★

Nov 15, 2003Virtual Hollywood Actress

Andrew Niccol makes a comedy in which down-on-his-luck film director Al Pacino obtains a computer program for simulating a performance and creates a virtual actress, hoodwinking the public into believing she is a real person.

Director: Andrew Niccol

Actors: Al Pacino, Rachel Roberts, Catherine Keener, Pruitt Taylor Vince, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 November 200321 November 2021 by Roog

Insomnia (2002)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 14, 2002Alaskan Psycho-Thriller

Christopher Nolan's second film, an English-language remake of a Norwegian thriller. The action is relocated to Alaska and gets the addition of Robin Williams as a serial killer but the result emerges far less effective than the original

Director: Christopher Nolan

Actors: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Martin Donovan, …

Category: Horror

14 September 20023 September 2020 by Roog

Angels in America (2003)

Rating: ★★★★★

Jan 6, 2005Surreal AIDS Drama/Angelic Visitations

Stunning tv mini-series adaptation of Tony Kushner's award-winning play about the impact of the AIDS crisis on gay culture in the 1980s, which becomes a surreal fantasy filled with appearances of angels and ghosts

Director: Mike Nichols

Actors: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Justin Kirk, …

Category: Fantasy

6 January 200518 November 2025 by Roog

Hangman (2017)

Rating: ★

Jan 8, 2018Serial Killer Thriller

A dreary revival of the 1990s serial killer thriller. The surprise for a work that has no ambition beyond cable filler is that it has attracted a name like Al Pacino who mugs and showboats through the worst performance of his career

Director: Johnny Martin

Actors: Al Pacino, Karl Urban, Brittany Snow, Sarah Shahi, …

Category: Horror

8 January 201810 March 2026 by Roog