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Dog Day Afternoon

1975

Sidney Lumet

Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Carol Kane ...

7.4

21,486

Drama. Thriller Based upon a real-life story that happened in the early seventies in which the Chase Manhattan Bank in Flatbush, Brooklyn, was held siege by a gay bank robber determined to steal enough money for his male lover to undergo a sex change operation. On a hot summer afternoon, the First Savings Bank of Brooklyn is held up by Sonny and Sal, two down-and-out characters. Although the bank manager and female tellers agree not to interfere with ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Adam Smith Empire	"Pacino simmers in this daring and brilliantly constructed treatise on the many facets of a crime (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Although the movie contains tragedy and the potential for greater tragedy, it is also tremendously funny. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"The film is funny, but mostly it's reportorially efficient and vivid (...) a gaudy street-carnival of a movie that rudely invites laughs at inappropriate moments"	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"The entire cast is excellent (...) Dog Day Afternoon is, in the whole as well as the parts, film-making at its best."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Enjoyable and even exciting at the start, Dog Day Afternoon degenerates into frustration and tedium toward nightfall—an experience no less painful for the audience than for the actors"	NEU
United States	Chuck Bowen AV Club	"A frank social melodrama that’s also a celebration of quotidian bravery (...) This film understands American democracy for what it is: not only a right, but a challenge."	POS

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