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Magnificent production, combined with excellent casting and direction, make The Day of the Locust as fine a film (in a professional sense) as the basic material lets it be. Jun 12, 2008 | Full Review…
Magnificent production, combined with excellent casting and direction, make The Day of the Locust as fine a film (in a professional sense) as the basic material lets it be.
Variety Staff
The narrative is often confused and confusing. Jan 26, 2006 | Full Review…
The narrative is often confused and confusing.
Geoff Andrew
Schlesinger has conceived his film as an epic, which was a daring thing to do with such slender material. Oct 23, 2004 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Schlesinger has conceived his film as an epic, which was a daring thing to do with such slender material.
Roger Ebert
A painfully misconceived reduction and simplification. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
A painfully misconceived reduction and simplification.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The problems with casting and characterization are only symptomatic of a deeper problem - a lack of understanding of what the story is all about. Dec 3, 2019 | Full Review…
The problems with casting and characterization are only symptomatic of a deeper problem - a lack of understanding of what the story is all about.
Jacoba Atlas
Accurately captures the intent of West's dark masterpiece. May 8, 2012 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Accurately captures the intent of West's dark masterpiece.
John (Midnight Cowboy) Schlesinger's version of Nathanael Hawthorne's powerful novel about Hollywood and its dreamers and losers in the 1930s is not always effective, but it's ambitious, daring, and very well acted. Jan 2, 2011 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
John (Midnight Cowboy) Schlesinger's version of Nathanael Hawthorne's powerful novel about Hollywood and its dreamers and losers in the 1930s is not always effective, but it's ambitious, daring, and very well acted.
Emanuel Levy
The casting choices are brilliant but the production is let down by a haphazard screenplay that misses the novel's point, and weak direction. Mar 27, 2005 | Rating: 67/100 | Full Review…
The casting choices are brilliant but the production is let down by a haphazard screenplay that misses the novel's point, and weak direction.
Jamie Gillies
Much has been made of the climactic riot scene, which may have seemed novel when Nathanael West first wrote it back in the '30s, but it's just plain goofy when viewed today Apr 7, 2004 | Rating: 2/5
Much has been made of the climactic riot scene, which may have seemed novel when Nathanael West first wrote it back in the '30s, but it's just plain goofy when viewed today
Luke Y. Thompson
Blistering film version of the novel. One of Schlesinger's best works. Aug 24, 2003 | Rating: 4/5
Blistering film version of the novel. One of Schlesinger's best works.
Ken Hanke
A fascinating, if flawed, example of the film industry turning the lights on itself and finding nothing there but darkness. May 24, 2003 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A fascinating, if flawed, example of the film industry turning the lights on itself and finding nothing there but darkness.
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