Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Reviews
LarsenOnFilm
...like watching a melodrama in a sauna. It's just too much.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Common Sense Media
Classics-loving teens will appreciate family melodrama.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Top Critic
As so often with adaptations of Williams, it frequently errs on the side of overstatement and pretension, but still remains immensely enjoyable as a piece of cod-Freudian codswallop.
Movie Metropolis
...the dialogue is so absorbing and the acting so intense, we hardly notice that 108 minutes go by or that there is a whole lot less to the plot than meets the eye.
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| Original Score: 7/10
DVDJournal.com
Still, this potentially over-scrubbed production kept enough of Williams' energy and poetic Americana intact, fleshing it up with an ensemble of career-imprinting performances and MGM production lavishness.
Urban Cinefile
This is a classic for good reason; it stands repeated viewing.
Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958) is the powerful, highly-charged, moving story of a neurotic, dysfunctional Southern family
