Nominated for 2 Oscars. 8 wins & 13 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Wonderful potential, and wasted. Serpico has some brutal surface flash and an acetylene performance by Al Pacino in the title role, but its energy is used to dodge all the questions it should have raised and answered.
– Jay Cocks,
TIME Magazine,
26 Jul 2011
fresh:
Sidney Lumet's direction adeptly combines gritty action and thought-provoking comment.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
9 Apr 2008
fresh:
A virtuoso performance by Al Pacino and some expert location work by Sidney Lumet add up to a tour de force genre piece that transcends the supercop conventions to create a moving, engrossing portrait of Frank Serpico.
– Don Druker,
Chicago Reader,
1 Mar 2007
rotten:
Another problem, these days, is Pacino's characterisation; he seems at times more like a misplaced hippy than a plainclothes cop.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
Lumet's biopic of Frank Serpico, the virtuous cop who exposed a network of graft in the NYPD, feels depressingly relevant.