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Uniformly good performances and some equally good direction and dialog keep the meller moving.
One of the most daring and thoroughly perverse works of art ever to come out of Hollywood.
It lives on, haunting and creepy, an embodiment of the guilty soul of film noir. No one who has seen it has easily forgotten it.
The zenith of the B-movie genre.
Ulmer's threadbare bondage-noir masterpiece
You can't take your eyes off the screen, and with the devilish Savage up there you wouldn't dare to.
an effective emotional rollercoaster that explores the dark side of human nature, and its concise, pessimistic view of the American Dream is still admired today.
A film that must be seen to be (dis)believed.
quintessential noir territory
Like great garage rock, however, Ulmer's landmark film ultimately derives its raw, jittery vitality from its very crudeness.
Passion joins with folly to produce termite art par excellence.
Tawdry, textbook example of classic "B" film noir.
Strange, paranoid thriller using minimal sets and budget.
Reveals the masochistic strain in film noir characters, who fume bitterly about their bad luck without ever taking responsibility for their actions.
Detour, for those who have not seen it, may be the greatest achievement in B-movie making in history.
For some, being outside the system is as natural as walking in the fog.
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