Best two reviews:
1) Chicago Sun-Times - Scarface is one of those special movies, like "The Godfather," that is willing to take a flawed, evil man and allow him to be human. (Rating: 100) Read Full Review >
2) Empire - Perfomances are excellent, and despite its moralistic conclusion, the film has since become de rigueur viewing for crack barons, who know a good shoot-em-up when they see one. (Rating: 100) Read Full Review >

Worst two reviews:
7) Boston Globe - It plays like a crude "Godfather" parody, the sort that might amuse as a 10-minute sketch on "Saturday Night Live," but curdles and collapses as a 143-minute film. [09 Dec 1983] (Rating: 25) Read Full Review >
8) Chicago Reader - Brian De Palma dedicates this 1983 feature to Howard Hawks and Ben Hecht, authors of the 1932 original, though I doubt they would find much honor in his gory inflation of their crisp, 90-minute comic nightmare into a klumbering, self-important, arrhythmic downer of nearly three hours. (Rating: 20) Read Full Review >