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The weirdest great movie ever made.
For a fellow who has as much talent with a camera as Orson Welles and whose powers of pictorial invention are as fluid and as forcible as his, this gentleman certainly has a strange way of marring his films with sloppiness.
... looms as the pivotal work of Welles's career, one of the greatest glories of the American cinema, and undoubtedly the trashiest masterpiece in motion picture history.
One of Orson Welles' best films, this highlight of 1940s film noir stars Rita Hayworth at her most desirable. French director Francois Truffaut said it best: The raison d'etre for this work is "cinema itself"--the climactic mirror sequence is a stunner
Like most of Welles' Hollywood efforts, Shanghai was shanghaied by studio tampering ... but it also contains some of his greatest set pieces, topped by the delirious shootout in the funhouse hall of mirrors.
Complex, courageous, and utterly compelling.
Visually brilliant, complex thriller, from the master of the baroque crime film.
A masterpiece in the bizarre and the complex.
A brilliant movie, and everything in it is terrific.
An uneven film, perhaps, but one which only seems to improve with age.
Forget Kane. The Lady From Shanghai presents Welles at his most finely tuned baroque.
...curious newcomers to Welles' work should leave this one 'til the end of his oeuvre (and I'm including Transformers: The Movie in that list).
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