Sea of Love finds Pacino in more reliable shape, sparingly employing his over-the-top tendencies only when it makes sense for his character.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 18, 2025

Sea of Love barely dips below the surface of the psycho-killer genre and it barely has time for the emotional complexity of its secondary characters. Yet Sea of Love is genuinely entertaining.

| May 9, 2023

A somewhat conventional police thriller, from which I cannot extract any significant intrigue beyond the palpable chemistry between Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 9, 2022

The film is passionate, entertaining, well written, and directed with acceptable competence. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 12, 2022

Turning post-modern dating into routine police work (and vice versa), these detectives turn the real dangers of unprotected casual sex into the imagined criminal danger of single women.

| May 19, 2020

...a slow-moving thriller that's oftentimes just a little too deliberate for its own good...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 31, 2019

Pacino's quirky, carefully considered performance makes Sea of Love more memorable than the average thriller.

| Aug 10, 2018

Sea of Love is unrestrained and completely hypnotic...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2016

Solid Pacino turn with Ellen Barkin giving strong assist.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 10, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 16, 2007

Efficient enough as a thriller, but what makes this mandatory viewing is the return of Pacino.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 22, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 7, 2003

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

A lugubrious imitation of a second-rate television movie, over-produced and over-cast.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 20, 2003

Sea of Love has its Cinemax lapses in taste, but most films of the genre lack sophistication from which to lapse.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 11, 2003

Mediocre thriller with a good cast. I never want to hear that [expletive deleted] song again.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2003

Superb, steamy thriller that keeps you guessing till the very end.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 12, 2003

Marred by an implausible ending, 'Sea of Love' is still one Pacino's best vehicles.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 17, 2002