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"What's refreshing, and even sort of charming, about this thriller is that it's so obviously the work of diehards--of talented traditionalists who are dedicated to taking care of business" (Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker ). Also lauded: the cast, which features Timothy Hutton, Stephen Dorff, and Harvey Keitel; and the movie's refusal to glamorize the criminal life.
The friendship between an honest New York cop (Harrison Ford) and an Irish Republican Army terrorist (Pitt) eschews the "black-and-white formulas" typical of suspense films, says Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly ). The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty, on the other hand, finds the premise "an astonishingly banal male-bonding motif."
The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty describes it as "a ghost story that thinks it's a murder mystery," complete with Arctic Circle chase scenes at the end.
The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty breaks with the consensus to pan Face/Off, calling it too serious.
Critics see this biopic about Robert E. Howard, the author of the Conan the Barbarian stories, as an occasion to wax confessional, particularly on the subject of the writing life: "It's rare to see the basic conditions of a writer's existence--the solitude, the panic, the neediness, the unhealthy self-absorption--portrayed so starkly," says The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty.