Critic Reviews
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Jay Cocks, TIME Magazine
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.
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Variety Staff, Variety
Sidney Lumet's direction adeptly combines gritty action and thought-provoking comment.
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Don Druker, Chicago Reader
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.
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Benjamin Strong, Village Voice
Lumet's biopic of Frank Serpico, the virtuous cop who exposed a network of graft in the NYPD, feels depressingly relevant.
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
A remarkable record of one man's rebellion against the sort of sleaziness and second-rateness that has affected so much American life, from the ingredients of its hamburgers to the ethics of its civil servants and politicians.
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Cast
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Al Pacinoas Frank Serpico -
Tony Robertsas Bob Blair -
John Randolphas Chief Sidney Green
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Jack Kehoeas Tom Keough -
Biff McGuireas Capt. McClain -
Cornelia Sharpeas Leslie




