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EmanuelLevy.Com
Playing a complex, sharpy written part, Jane Fonda won the Best Actress Oscar for her strongest dramatic performance in Alan Pakula's well mounted drmataic thriller
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| Original Score: A-
Antagony & Ecstasy
One of the most important and influential movies of the early 1970s.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Top Critic[Fonda] makes all the right choices, from the mechanics of her walk and her voice inflection to the penetration of the girl's raging psyche. It is a rare performance.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Sutherland is either an excellent sounding board for this nuanced portrait or he's a big zero, probably both. Fonda, however, transcends her limitations, making the most of her often forced quality as an actress.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Film4
Fonda is simply a revelation, beautiful, sassy and streetwise, and yet hauntingly vulnerable. She deserved her Oscar in a role she has never bettered.
For once, a genuinely psychological thriller.
Nolan's Pop Culture Review
Fonda won an Oscar. Roy Scheider is her nasty pimp!
| Original Score: 4/5
With Fonda and Sutherland, you have actors who understand and sympathize with their characters, and you have a vehicle worthy of that sort of intelligence. So the fact that the thriller stuff doesn't always work isn't so important.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Kansas City Kansan
Fonda and Sutherland sizzle. A great story too.
| Original Score: 4/5
Austin Chronicle
Fonda and Sutherland are at the top of their game in this mystery/thriller that also provides a fasinating look into the mind and soul of a top NYC callgirl.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
A gripping suspense thriller; Fonda tough and vulnerable deserved her Oscar here.
| Original Score: 4/5
Kalamazoo Gazette
Fonda's riveting performance is impossible to shake
| Original Score: 5/5
