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An existential suspense classic, The Wages of Fear blends nonstop suspense with biting satire; its influence is still being felt on today's thrillers.
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Turning the screws with a relentlessness that impresses even in this age of the ruthless, high-tech thriller, Clouzot strings together situations of vividly, almost sadistically imagined danger. Apr 1, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Turning the screws with a relentlessness that impresses even in this age of the ruthless, high-tech thriller, Clouzot strings together situations of vividly, almost sadistically imagined danger.
Dave Kehr
Hitch's bomb-under-the-table suspense formula burnished to an expert sheen. Dec 6, 2011 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Hitch's bomb-under-the-table suspense formula burnished to an expert sheen.
Joshua Rothkopf
A significant influence on Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this grueling pile driver of a movie will keep you on the edge of your seat. Mar 1, 2007 | Full Review…
A significant influence on Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this grueling pile driver of a movie will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A harrowing odyssey of four derelicts inching two trucks loaded with nitro-glycerine over a tortuous terrain puts this in the strong meat department with a downbeat theme of fear and its manifestations. Mar 1, 2007 | Full Review…
A harrowing odyssey of four derelicts inching two trucks loaded with nitro-glycerine over a tortuous terrain puts this in the strong meat department with a downbeat theme of fear and its manifestations.
Variety Staff
A reeking bandana movie, with all the expected thrills, but a vision of men as scurrying insects with no redeeming features. Jan 26, 2006 | Full Review…
A reeking bandana movie, with all the expected thrills, but a vision of men as scurrying insects with no redeeming features.
The excitement derives entirely from the awareness of nitroglycerine and the gingerly, breathless handling of it. You sit there waiting for the theatre to explode. May 20, 2003 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
The excitement derives entirely from the awareness of nitroglycerine and the gingerly, breathless handling of it. You sit there waiting for the theatre to explode.
Bosley Crowther
The Wages of Fear will keep you tipped forward on the I edge of your seat, your palms sweaty and your heart thumping wildly. Jul 16, 2019 | Full Review…
The Wages of Fear will keep you tipped forward on the I edge of your seat, your palms sweaty and your heart thumping wildly.
Hoshi Soffen
A masterpiece of cruel suspense. May 31, 2018 | Full Review…
A masterpiece of cruel suspense.
Richard von Busack
The actual driving scenes are full of suspense and bit of humour. You can tell Clouzot has fun putting the viewer in a false sense of security. Mar 15, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The actual driving scenes are full of suspense and bit of humour. You can tell Clouzot has fun putting the viewer in a false sense of security.
Stephan Boissonneault
This is filmmaking at its very best and rarely does a film grip with such intensity, some scenes being almost unbearable to watch as the situations the men find themselves in create palpable tension, which you believe utterly. Oct 18, 2017 | Rating: 10/10 | Full Review…
This is filmmaking at its very best and rarely does a film grip with such intensity, some scenes being almost unbearable to watch as the situations the men find themselves in create palpable tension, which you believe utterly.
Robert Martin
Anti-capitalist exciting existential adventure film. Mar 25, 2013 | Rating: A | Full Review…
Anti-capitalist exciting existential adventure film.
Dennis Schwartz
The Wages of Fear contains tension-fraught stretches of "pure cinema" that probably gave even the Master cold sweats. Dec 6, 2011 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
The Wages of Fear contains tension-fraught stretches of "pure cinema" that probably gave even the Master cold sweats.
Budd Wilkins
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