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By Thomas Delapa (487) for Boulder Weekly (487) on 17 Oct 2006

A methodical but fairly repellent exercise in claustrophobic horror…

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By Iain Mckay (1) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 30 Jun 2006

A potent cocktail of sexual repression, madness and violence, this chiller is one of Roman Polanski's best…

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By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Apr 2006

The movie's shake-and-bake mix of reality and crumbling subjectivity is too deliberate to be about character--it is, rather, a game of movieness,…

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By Jason Anderson (395) for eye WEEKLY (415) on 08 Apr 2004

Polanski displayed a much more troubling kind of thinking, forever banishing the possibility of safety for his characters…

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By Gabe Leibowitz (202) for eCinemaCenter.com (18) on 22 Dec 2003

Polanski's best by a wide margin. The walls! The walls…

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By Michael W. Phillips, Jr. (528) for Goatdog's Movies (527) on 28 Feb 2002

A fascinating if slow-moving study of the onset of madness…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 01 Jan 2000

A contemporary audience might find the horror in Repulsion occurring too little, too late, but the fun of the movie is in the details, the…

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By Keith H. Brown (59) for Edinburgh U Film Society (22) on 01 Jan 2000

Repulsion is perhaps Polanski's and Deneuve's finest hours…

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By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

Deneuve gives a scary and believable performance as a young woman who has never been completely integrated and who loses all sanity while we watch…

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By Kim Newman (791) for Empire (3,446) on 06 Sep 1995

If hell is in the details, Roman Polanski has captured it here in his disturbing portrait of falling into psychosis…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 25 Apr 1991

Repulsion's depiction of a young woman's dissolution into madness is one of the most harrowing mental descents ever depicted onscreen…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Oct 1988

Roman Polanski's first film in English (1965, 105 min.) is still his scariest and most disturbing--not only for its evocations of sexual panic,…

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By Bosley Crowther (448) for The New York Times (9,847) on 02 Nov 1968

An absolute knockout of a movie in the psychological horror line has been accomplished by Roman Polanski in his first English-language film…

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