Plot is the weakest part here. What you'll enjoy in spades is its rampant wit, uncontrolled luridness, and corrosive sexual come-ons. Kisses here are as tender-hearted as toxic dumps. In fact, Pacino's Eli is sort of a one-man Valley of the Dolls.

| Sep 26, 2021

[Pacino] proves one more time he's one of film's finest actors.

| Original Score: B | Feb 7, 2020

Despite its marginally intriguing plot and some surprising insight into the New York political scene, this is frightfully dull.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2019

A grim, depressing cautionary tale about the danger of mistaking business associates for friends and making networking more of a priority than real relationships.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 29, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2005

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 18, 2004

[Starts] off like a B-version of Sweet Smell of Success before ending like a C-version of The Parallax View.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 21, 2004

After watching this depressing film, I felt as tired as Al Pacino's character looked.

| Jul 11, 2004

Pacino unleashes every trick in his actor's bag... The accent alone batters us into the back of the theater, making us want to go home.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2004

The movie is weighted down with an excess of plot points that fail to coalesce.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 11, 2004

Pacino with crazy hair and a gravepale face... inside clothes that seem too big and heavy for him. He is so concentrated, so compact. He sucks all the light out of the frame. He is the reason to see the film.

| Mar 17, 2004

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 20, 2004

Intriguing but deeply flawed thriller.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2004

Eli is a modern-day version of a tainted weakling who has sold his soul to the devil, but would like to rent it back from time to time.

| Sep 16, 2003

O filme, que mostra uma Nova York onde o poder exercido de forma opressiva e cujas noites escondem festas dignas de De Olhos Bem Fechados, traz Pacino em uma das melhores atuaes de sua carreira.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2003

At one point, a character kids Eli about being 'moth-eaten,' but the term would be better applied to the film's crippling third act.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 8, 2003

People I Know rests not at the bottom of that pile, not at the top, but just out of range of significance, to be forgotten the minute the audience's back is turned.

| May 30, 2003

Not much to admire.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 21, 2003