Review of The Third Man (1949) by Pauline Kael for The New Yorker — 07 Sep 1976
A peculiarly hollow, centerless blend of theatre and literature, from which what’s missing, for the most part (though not entirely), is precisely the cinema...It isn’t so much that The Third Man is a bad movie—far from it.
But it’s far from being a great one, too.
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This review of The Third Man (1949) was written by Pauline Kael and published by The New Yorker on 07 Sep 1976.
The Third Man has generally received very positive reviews.
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