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Night Moves (1975)

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Private eye Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) is dedicated to his job, but his dedication does not make him happy or powerful in his personal life, and his wife (Susan Clark) is cheating on him. Aging actress Arlene Iverson (Janet Ward) hires Harry to find her trust-funded daughter Delly (Melanie Griffith), distracting Harry from his marital problems as he tracks the lascivious runaway teen to Florida. In the Keys, Harry has an affair of his own with Paula (Jennifer Warren), and he succeeds in

R, 1 hr. 40 min.

Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Classics

Jul 12, 2005

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All Critics (17) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (4) | DVD (5)

Night Moves is a paradox: a suspenseless suspenser, very well cast with players who lend sustained interest to largely synthetic theatrical characters.

July 23, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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One of Penn's best features; his direction of actors is sensitive and purposeful throughout.

July 23, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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Arthur Penn's Night Moves is about an old-fashioned private eye who says and does all the expected things while surrounded by a plot he completely fails to understand.

October 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
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An elegant conundrum, a private-eye film that has its full share of duplicity, violence, and bizarre revelation, but whose mind keeps straying from questions of pure narrative to those of the hero's psyche.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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Hackman perfectly embodies the faded knight errant being eaten up by the simple desire to know The Truth and thus somehow redeem his misspent life.

July 23, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

This excellent contemporary noir features some of the best work of both director Arthur Penn and actor Gene Hackman.

July 23, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

It is all about atmosphere in this cult Arthur Penn work.

January 1, 2008 Comment
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Essential viewing.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

A fine, steamy slice of noir.

August 12, 2005 Full Review Source: Now Playing Magazine | Comment

An exceptional neo-noir...In Penn's short-lived time among Hollywood's elite directors, Night Moves is perhaps his most assured film next to Bonnie and Clyde.

July 22, 2005 Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly | Comment

Hackman...is as watchable as ever, and for him alone and a maybe certain raw and realistic brutality, the movie continues to pass a fascinating ninety-odd minutes.

July 15, 2005 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

When the story sticks to character and action, it succeeds. When it strays off into philosophical and psychological rambling...it loses interest.

July 15, 2005 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

An unusual detective story that points out that in a world of rampant deception, we can't believe in winners anymore

January 18, 2004 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | Comment
Spirituality and Practice

a sad attempt to quickly knock off what made Chinatown great

September 26, 2002 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

A seminal modern noir work from the 1970s about an innocent and lost soul making his way among liars and thieves...

February 13, 2001 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
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Everything is low key about this film, until the last thirty minutes when the plot violently unravels. As other great neo noirs of its type, it confronts a man with old fashioned morals and mentality with hypocrite modern day world. Gene Hackman gives another stelar performance.

March 4, 2008
pier007

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An interesting neo-noir thriller but that is not near the masterpiece some critics make it be. Doesn't hold a candle to Arthur Penn's real masterpiece, "Bonnie and Clyde"

June 23, 2011
Matheus Carvalho

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