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Given primal verve by John Boorman's unflinching direction and Burt Reynolds' star-making performance, Deliverance is a terrifying adventure.
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Each of the four lead performances is exceptional, none more so than Burt Reynolds' beefy, supercilious Lewis. August 24, 2008 | Full Review…
Each of the four lead performances is exceptional, none more so than Burt Reynolds' beefy, supercilious Lewis.
John Boorman's 1972 film of the James Dickey novel has a beautiful visual style that balances the film's machismo message. September 18, 2007 | Full Review…
John Boorman's 1972 film of the James Dickey novel has a beautiful visual style that balances the film's machismo message.
Don Druker
It's the stuff of which slapdash oaters and crime programmers are made but the obvious ambitions of Deliverance are supposed to be on a higher plane. September 18, 2007 | Full Review…
It's the stuff of which slapdash oaters and crime programmers are made but the obvious ambitions of Deliverance are supposed to be on a higher plane.
Variety Staff
It's a haunting, nightmarish vision. January 26, 2006 | Full Review…
It's a haunting, nightmarish vision.
Tom Milne
A fantasy about violence, not a realistic consideration of it. October 23, 2004 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
A fantasy about violence, not a realistic consideration of it.
Roger Ebert
So many of Dickey's lumpy narrative ideas remain in his screenplay that John Boorman's screen version becomes a lot less interesting than it has any right to be. May 20, 2003 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
So many of Dickey's lumpy narrative ideas remain in his screenplay that John Boorman's screen version becomes a lot less interesting than it has any right to be.
Vincent Canby
Not so much a cautionary tale as one of uncommon doggedness. August 29, 2020 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Not so much a cautionary tale as one of uncommon doggedness.
Mike Massie
While thematically it's rich, and structurally it's daring to sideline Burt Reynolds' Lewis just before the third act... in this movie, cinematically, it's suicidal. June 23, 2020 | Full Review…
While thematically it's rich, and structurally it's daring to sideline Burt Reynolds' Lewis just before the third act... in this movie, cinematically, it's suicidal.
Quentin Tarantino
Well worth seeing. January 6, 2020 | Full Review…
Well worth seeing.
Maureen Koch
It's quietly positive moments are stomped out by the pervasive brutality and uncompromising sadism. January 6, 2020 | Full Review…
It's quietly positive moments are stomped out by the pervasive brutality and uncompromising sadism.
Dick Lochte
...profoundly distasteful. October 9, 2019 | Full Review…
...profoundly distasteful.
John Hofsess
This gripping drama was a controversial release back in the early 70s, and its distressing intensity hasn't really diminished in the decades since.Just remember, once you go with its powerful flow, there ain't no turnin' back. September 6, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
This gripping drama was a controversial release back in the early 70s, and its distressing intensity hasn't really diminished in the decades since.Just remember, once you go with its powerful flow, there ain't no turnin' back.
Leigh Paatsch
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