Blow-Up Reviews
Total Film
Inspiring everyone from Francis Ford Coppola to Mike Myers, Michelangelo Antonioni's arty thriller remains an absorbing, eerie enigma.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Top CriticA prize '60s artifact, Michelangelo Antonioni's what-is-truth? meditation on Swinging London is a movie to appreciate -- if not ponder.
Empire Magazine
Despite its thriller hook, Blow-Up is less a mystery than a portrait of swinging alienation.
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| Original Score: 5/5
EmanuelLevy.Com
Antonioni's first English-speaking film is a seminal work of the 1960s, reflecting swinging London as well as dealing with voyeurism, artists' social responsbilities and other relevant issues.
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| Original Score: A
Cinema em Cena
O rigor estético aqui exibido por Antonioni, somado à excepcional montagem de Frank Clarke, à bela fotografia de Carlo Di Palma e à atuação inspirada de Hemming, garante ao filme um vigor e um charme que só crescem com o tempo.
| Original Score: 5/5
This is so ravishing to look at (the colors all seem newly minted) and pleasurable to follow (the enigmas are usually more teasing than worrying) that you're likely to excuse the metaphysical pretensions.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Still thought provoking, fascinating film making.
| Original Score: 5/5
Classic Film and Television
Inventive, richly styled film, a visual classic.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Pop-culture icon that has become a cult classic.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
The natural world is arrayed against the artificial scene; conscience is deployed against convention. If you've never seen Blow-Up, see it now, if only to see what part of the world was like 40 years ago.
Senses of Cinema
Blowup forcefully reminds us that even the latest technologies can mislead or betray us.
Whether there was a murder isn't the point. The film is about a character mired in ennui and distaste, who is roused by his photographs into something approaching passion.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A fascinating take on the mod lifestyle.
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| Original Score: A
Lessons of Darkness
Speaks to the inescapability of modern man's emotional and spiritual alienation.
Film-Forward.com
Peter Brunette's detailed and entertaining commentary refreshingly acknowledges that, at many points, 'Things don't add up in this movie.'
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| Original Score: 3/5
Combustible Celluloid
The ennui stretches into the very story itself.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Boulder Weekly
Antonioni's chic study in ambiguity calls into question the notion of photographic truth, and indeed reality itself.
