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It has a humorous tang, underlying the macabre.
The film is superbly acted by Mr. Polanski, Mr. Douglas and Miss Winters.
As a film by Polanski, it's unspeakably disappointing.
It's an exercise in urban paranoia and mental disintegration that echoes or anticipates everything from Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby to Bitter Moon and The Pianist.
The end result is somewhere between Franz Kafka and William Castle, but still worth seeing.
Poorly received on its release, it has since become a cult fave.
A disturbing and poignant anthology of Roman Polanski's favourite, oppressive themes.
The film [is] extremely, scarily effective (it is also surprisingly funny).
Although overshadowed by director Roman Polanski's more famous horror efforts... The Tenant is in many ways superior - a haunting, mesmerizing tale of a man's loss of identity and descent into madness.
Owing to the very same personal urgency that makes it a masterpiece, it is overwhelmingly solipsistic and ultimately alienating.
As the plot escalates into increasingly arbitrary excesses of fantasy and heads for the predictable pay-off, the movie looks more and more like a potboiler.
The Tenant carries the most shocking double climax in all of cinema.
The Tenant is one of Roman Polanski's greatest and darkest films.
Polanski directs Polanski in this creepy tale of isolation and bad real estate.
Nightmarish, disturbing, brilliant Polanski.
The disc is a bare-bones offering, with only the theatrical trailer appearing in addition to the movie.
Roman Polanski's key error is almost certainly casting himself in the lead, as he is not an adept enough thespian to pull of the challenging transformation of his character.
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