Force of Evil Reviews

Force of Evil is a masterpiece, usually lumped in with films noir of the period, but unique.

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For all its unpleasant nature, it must be said that this film is a dynamic crime-and-punishment drama, brilliantly and broadly realized.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

One of the major themed films of the '40s.

Full Review | Original Score: A

Top notch Garfield vehicle

| Original Score: 5/5

At its best, Force achieves a style at once brutal and poetic, documentarian and noir.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

A gripping thriller with a terrific performance by Garfield. It seems only the good peformers and directors got blacklisted (in this case Garfield and Polonsky).

| Original Score: 5/5

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.

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A thinly-veiled outright damnation of capitalism and its merger-heavy practices. Heavy-handed but quite intriguing and poetic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

| Original Score: 4/5

| Original Score: 4/5

| Original Score: 4/5

| Original Score: 5/5

| Original Score: 4/5

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