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Metascore
16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Washington PostWashington PostCruise was born to play company man, and the role is an opportunity to sum up his old roles and transcend them with his most potently emotional work.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertBut with a screenplay that developed the story more clearly, this might have been a superior movie, instead of just a good one with some fine performances.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanNo one is going to confuse The Firm with art, but its high- cholesterol virtues-a story that keeps you guessing, a dozen meaty character turns-are enough to send you home sated.
- 60EmpireEmpireAn average movie improved by Cruise's star appeal and accomplished supporting cast.
- 50The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyThe movie is extremely long (two hours and 34 minutes) and so slow that by the end you feel as if you've been standing up even if you've been sitting down.
- 50Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenBy the film's climax, following the plot movements has become merely complex rather than suspenseful.
- 50The New YorkerThe New YorkerThe supporting cast provides centripetal force; too bad the center cannot hold.
- 38ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliVery little of what made the written version so enjoyable has been successfully translated to the screen, and what we're left with instead is an overly-long (two hours and thirty-four minutes, to be exact), pedantic thriller.
- 38Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversDirector Sydney Pollack zapped out a taut thriller in "Three Days of the Condor". But The Firm is mostly flab, in the manner of Pollack's elephantine Havana.
- 38The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenBy then, the lofty ambitions can't disguise the sad reality - it's long, it's cluttered, and it's trite.