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By Simon Braud (5) for Empire (3,446) on 27 Feb 1997

The Maltese Falcon is an unassailable triumph of script, casting, direction and editing…

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By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 07 Jun 1993

The Maltese Falcon is really a triumph of casting and wonderfully suggestive character detail; the visual style, with its exaggerated vertical…

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By Rob Mackie (6) for The Guardian (2,969) on 01 Nov 1980

The film that brought the detective movie into the modern world, complete with novel film-noir techniques (shadows, low-angled shots, anti-heroes…

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By Bosley Crowther (448) for The New York Times (9,847) on 25 Dec 1969

It's the slickest exercise in cerebration that has hit the screen in many months, and it is also one of the most compelling nervous-laughter…

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By Otis Ferguson (5) for The New Republic (897) on 24 Jun 1969

The Maltese Falcon is the first crime melodrama with finish, speed and bang to come along in what seems ages, and since its pattern is one…

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By Pauline Kael (368) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 23 Dec 1968

The strange, dreamlike tension of the film escalates with each new confrontation, each new tailing, each new beating, with Gutman and Cairo…

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By Tom Cox (10) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 24 Mar 1942

The Maltese Falcon might not have been the first film noir, or even the most stylish, but all the genre elements are smartly in place here…

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