At 27 Writer-Director Stanley Kubrick, in his third full-length picture, has shown more audacity with dialogue and camera than Hollywood has seen since the obstreperous Orson Welles went riding out of town on an exhibitors' poll. ,TIME Magazine
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05/08/2007 @ 12:00 AM
The film at first tends to be somewhat confusing, soon settles into a tense and suspenseful vein which carries through to an unexpected and ironic windup. Variety Staff,Variety
Arguably Stanley Kubrick's most perfectly conceived and executed film. Jonathan Rosenbaum,Chicago Reader