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By Brandon S (2,121) on 05 Jun 2007

You have to think hard after seeing this film…

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By Paul S (1,717) on 02 Jun 2007

Rod Steiger is superb in this brilliantly realized look at the dark side of the human psyche. Not a bag of laughs but well worth seeing…

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By Jonathan R (793) on 01 Jun 2007

Utterly gripping- a harrowing film brilliantly acted by Rod Steiger…

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By Jon F (352) on 26 Jan 2007

[i]Harlem brings back memories of the Holocaust for this tormented pawnbroker[/i]…

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By Michael G (2,333) on 12 Nov 2006

A movie equally depressing and amazing. Early Lumet is incredible…

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By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 28 Sep 2006

There is little plot in the regular sense, but a series of episodes spanning just a few days of the present, which recall many harrowing experiences…

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By Libby T (107) on 10 Nov 2005

Bleak, realistic and certainly not a cheery feel good movie. But it is very compelling. Superbly directed by Sidney Lumet…

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By Dan Jardine (362) for All Movie Guide (72) on 26 Jun 2002

Dramatizes the psychological impact of the Nazi concentration camps, while drawing parallels to contemporary conditions of New York City ghetto life…

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By Bosley Crowther (448) for The New York Times (9,847) on 27 Feb 1998

Remarkable...[a] most uncommon film, which projects a disagreeable subject with power and cogency…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 22 Sep 1990

An ambitious but pretentious adaptation of Edward Lewis Wallant's novel by David Friedkin and Morton Fine, directed by Sidney Lumet…

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By Philip French (1,151) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 08 Oct 1985

An uneasy mixture of European art movie (the Resnais-like flashbacks that punctuate the narrative) and American ciné-vérité (it was shot…

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By Pauline Kael (368) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 23 May 1981

A pretentious parable that manages to shrivel into drivel…

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By Trae Stanley (1) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 28 Aug 1972

Visually, Lumet's use of gritty black-and-white realism to locate the story is also powerful…

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