Shot in a cramped and stage-like style, and sounding like warmed- over Mamet, Swimming With Sharks tries to go for the big picture but comes up empty from the first frame to the last.

| Apr 18, 2022

'Swimming with Sharks', although it is peak 90s in terms of some scripted dialog on outdated movie references about Shelly Winters and has some super choppy editing, is a fantastic movie to watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2022

Unfortunately, Spacey's no-holds-barred portrait is about the only reason to take in Huang's low-budget, writing-directing debut. The story line proceeds predictably, though often unpersuasively.

| Jun 8, 2018

Despite some sharp dialogue, this is a nasty, derivative film, sort of a cross between Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Altman's The Player.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 18, 2008

The picture's raison d'être has to be Spacey's 'loud and nasty' performance: he's the sort of actor who grabs you by the throat and beats you about the head without ever lifting his feet from the desk.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2005

...Spacey delivers one of his most memorable performances...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 31, 2005

It's darkly hilarious, smoothly entertaining, and almost sinfully cruel. And the finalé packs a real stinger.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 17, 2005

Dazzling and subversive satire on boss-employee relations.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2005

One of the best film's of the 90's...Spacey and Whaley are staggeringly good!

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 23, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 11, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 27, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 3, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 17, 2003

Mr. Spacey's Buddy is a caricature so dazzling that even Buddy might have to say something nice about it: cool, withering, studiously suave, and spurred by impulses that might seem peevish even in a 2-year-old child.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2003

ascerbic but missing something

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 23, 2003