With the cast and the pulpy neo-noir storyline, one would never suspect that the film is the crushing bore that it is.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 7, 2009

This is an engaging movie, which shows its theatrical origins, both positively and negatively.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 31, 2007

Nolte and Bridges have too much talent to play their uninspired characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 19, 2003

The film might as well be called Stagnant, because precious little of emotional consequence for the audience happens.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 4, 2002

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2002

Nolte and Bridges are naturals together.

| Original Score: short | Apr 30, 2001

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 27, 2001

Simpatico is a long slog through perplexities and complexities that disguise what this really is: the kind of B-movie plot that used to clock in at 75 minutes on the bottom half of a double bill.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 14, 2001

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 1, 2001

Simpatico is a textbook example of how to waste a great cast.

| Jan 1, 2000

Although the central offense of the past is certainly sordid enough, it's not terribly interesting, and no laborious montage can alter that.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A challenging and arresting story that unearths compelling insights.

| Jan 1, 2000

Ultimately the film, like the story, is enigmatic and messy and circles in on itself until there is nowhere to go.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 1, 2000

This deadly slow, boring, overwrought, silly and stilted melodrama is so awful you ask, 'Why did anyone think this was worth making?'

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

First-time feature director Matthew Warchus can't keep the plot from bewildering and even distancing the viewer.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The acting is fine.

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 1, 2000

It's a shame Nolte and Bridges weren't cast as brothers, because the two have similar rumpled-suede faces and irritated-bark delivery.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Warchus' accomplished handling and the stars' flavorful performances lend Simpatico a bittersweet grace.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Something warm and real comes through in Nolte's and Finney's performances.

| Jan 1, 2000