Dog Day Afternoon Reviews

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.

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Lumet is exploring the clichés, not just using them.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

One of Pacino's best. One of Lumet's best. It's a true American classic.

| Original Score: 5/5

| Original Score: 4/5

| Original Score: 5/5

Pure cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5

As much as it is about a deeply troubled individual, "Dog Day Afternoon" is about a shift toward exploitation in the American media via live television.

Full Review | Original Score: A+

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

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Dog Day Afternoon is, in the whole as well as the parts, filmmaking at its best.

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An American classic.

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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 | Original Score: 4.5/5

| Original Score: 4/5

An iconic movie, thoroughly New York, with Pacino in top form.

Full Review | Original Score: A

| Original Score: 5/5

| Original Score: 4/5

Pacino gives an engaging performance.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Few fictional thrillers are as tense or as funny as this real-life recreation.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

Strong performances and forward-thinking situations make this political thriller an exceptionally vibrant experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

The audience is never bored, thanks to the good script by Frank Pierson that compensates the lack of action with good dialogue.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

| Original Score: 4/5