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Sweet Smell of Success boasts a top-notch cast, sharp direction, atmospheric cinematography, and an appropriately jazzy score, making it one of the best noir crime thrillers ever made.
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All Critics (52) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (1)
It's a tough tale about utterly amoral people. I thought the ending rather weak bet for most of the footage the film packs plenty of punch. August 10, 2020 | Full Review…
It's a tough tale about utterly amoral people. I thought the ending rather weak bet for most of the footage the film packs plenty of punch.
Mae Tinee
New York never looked as thrillingly sordid as it does in this scabrous masterpiece. April 9, 2015 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
New York never looked as thrillingly sordid as it does in this scabrous masterpiece.
Wendy Ide
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Hank Sartin
Sweet Smell, which could have been offal, is raised to considerable dramatic heights by intense acting, taut direction (by Alexander Mackendrick), [and] superb camera work (by James Wong Howe). April 21, 2009 | Full Review…
Sweet Smell, which could have been offal, is raised to considerable dramatic heights by intense acting, taut direction (by Alexander Mackendrick), [and] superb camera work (by James Wong Howe).
Mackendrick's nighthawk landscape is compellingly, poetically bleak. April 21, 2009 | Full Review…
Mackendrick's nighthawk landscape is compellingly, poetically bleak.
Dave Kehr
James Hill's production, locationed in Manhattan, captures the feel of Broadway and environs after dark. July 22, 2008 | Full Review…
James Hill's production, locationed in Manhattan, captures the feel of Broadway and environs after dark.
Variety Staff
The subject matter is incredibly mature, despite being shrouded by 1957-appropriate insinuation rather than graphic depiction. August 23, 2020 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
The subject matter is incredibly mature, despite being shrouded by 1957-appropriate insinuation rather than graphic depiction.
Mike Massie
It is beautifully shot in gleaming black and white (James Wong Howe) and written in a lucid, over-exposed one o'clock in the morning style by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman. March 31, 2020 | Full Review…
It is beautifully shot in gleaming black and white (James Wong Howe) and written in a lucid, over-exposed one o'clock in the morning style by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman.
Derek Prouse
... the razor-sharp wit of the script and the engaging lead performances will keep audiences coming back to Mackendrick's classic satire. February 13, 2020 | Full Review…
... the razor-sharp wit of the script and the engaging lead performances will keep audiences coming back to Mackendrick's classic satire.
Jim Ross
... one of the most lacerating and vicious visions of the predatory urban world in the American cinema, and one accomplished without a single murder, gunshot or pulled knife. March 2, 2018 | Full Review…
... one of the most lacerating and vicious visions of the predatory urban world in the American cinema, and one accomplished without a single murder, gunshot or pulled knife.
Sean Axmaker
[VIDEO ESSAY] Here lies the defective foundation of the American Dream as viewed from an implicitly American viewpoint - Bert Lancaster's company produced the film. December 2, 2013 | Rating: A | Full Review…
[VIDEO ESSAY] Here lies the defective foundation of the American Dream as viewed from an implicitly American viewpoint - Bert Lancaster's company produced the film.
Cole Smithey
A meandering drama about the lure of success and the ignominious aggression of defeat. August 15, 2011 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
A meandering drama about the lure of success and the ignominious aggression of defeat.
Wesley Lovell
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