…“Watching this obsessive performer at work on the screen, you can see the way his characters borrow from each other across the years, so that a physical nuance here signifies differently in the crucible of another lifestyle, an emotional dynamic there is deformed by unfamiliar pressures. All of Pacino's personae have a little touch of Richard III; richly related, the best of his men are singular creations, lonely, alienated, sweet, sad, violent, innocent, corrupt dissemblers…”

*Excerpt-Source: Film Comment; Date: 3/1/2000