Carlito's Way

Utterly compelling mob-flick with Brian De Palma and Al Pacino re-teaming a decade after Scarface.

The acting here, by Sean Penn, is a virtuoso tour de force - one of those performances that takes on a life of its own.

It sings, dances, punches, slinks, embeds. It moves like the luxurious tracking shots that punctuate the film.

...a colorful melodrama set in the Latino mob world of the mid-1970s.