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03/26/09
Force of Evil (1948)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:12
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.6/10
Runtime: 82 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A lawyer gets caught in a three way squeeze between his racketeer boss, his racketeer brother, and the anti-crime tactics of a new prosecutor who would like to jail the entire lot. Based on the... [More]
Starring: John Garfield, Beatrice Pearson, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor
Director: Abraham Polonsky
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Reviews for Force of Evil
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Top CriticFor all its unpleasant nature, it must be said that this film is a dynamic crime-and-punishment drama, brilliantly and broadly realized.
08/08/06
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01/26/06
Top CriticNo review available.
10/10/05
No review available.
07/05/05
One of the major themed films of the '40s.
11/12/04
Top notch Garfield vehicle
10/23/04
No review available.
04/30/04
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04/09/04
No review available.
08/22/03
At its best, Force achieves a style at once brutal and poetic, documentarian and noir.
07/30/03
Top CriticA gripping thriller with a terrific performance by Garfield. It seems only the good peformers and directors got blacklisted (in this case Garfield and Polonsky).
06/07/03
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05/24/03
Top CriticA thinly-veiled outright damnation of capitalism and its merger-heavy practices. Heavy-handed but quite intriguing and poetic.
01/01/00
A poetic, terse, beautifully exact, and highly personal re-creation of the American underworld, with an unpunctuated Joycean screenplay by Polonsky that is perhaps unique in the American cinema.
01/01/00
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