Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:34
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.5/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Al Pacino plays a ferocious and fed-up bank robber in Lumet's classic film DOG DAY AFTERNOON. Balancing suspense, violence, and humor, the film's depiction of a grand-scale media event craftily... [More]
Starring: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, James Broderick
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Reviews for Dog Day Afternoon
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Enjoyable and even exciting at the start, Dog Day Afternoon degenerates into frustration and tedium toward nightfall -- an experience no less painful for the audience than for the actors. Full Review |
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One of Sidney Lumet's best jobs of directing and one of Al Pacino's best performances (as a bisexual bank robber) come together in a populist thriller with lots of New York juice Full Review |
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4/5 |
Fine, but overrated Pacino vehicle directed by Lumet.
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Though fact-based, Lumet's heist film (his best work) is a wild satire with farcical tones about a normless, irrational society whose (anti)heroes are crazy delusional marginal men, played with panache by Pacino and Cazale in their most spontaneous turns Full Review |
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[Pacino] gives an electric performance, charged with a lunatic energy that expertly captures the weird blend of confidence and self-deprecation (if not hatred) that marks the paranoid syndrome. Full Review |
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Dog Day Afternoon is, in the whole as well as the parts, filmmaking at its best. Full Review |
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An American classic. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Pure cinema.
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4/5 |
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4/4 |
Pacino at the top of his game. Full Review |
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An iconic movie, thoroughly New York, with Pacino in top form. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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[Dog Day Afternoon is] so perfectly executed that it almost feels like the wall of art is being pulled back slightly, revealing the reality of life, in all its messy, contradictory, confusing wonder. Full Review |
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8/10 |
Few fictional thrillers are as tense or as funny as this real-life recreation. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
captures perfectly the zeitgeist of the early 1970s, a time when optimism was scraping rock bottom and John Wojtowicz was as good a hero as we could come up with. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Pacino simmers in this daring and brilliantly constructed treatise on the many facets of a crime. Full Review |
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The film's strength lies in its depiction of surfaces, lacking the visual or intellectual imagination to go beyond its shrewd social and psychological observations and its moments of absurdist humour. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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It's beautifully acted by performers who appear to have grown up on the city's sidewalks in the heat and hopelessness of an endless midsummer. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Lumet is exploring the clichés, not just using them. Full Review |
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