Jay Cocks

"A mellow, brassy, vigorous movie, rich in adventure and melancholy, 'The Man Who Would Be King' represents the best work Huston has done in a decade."  

"This isn't a movie, it's a recipe. The people who put The Sting together followed the instructions on the Butch Cassidy package"  

"This is a fastidious, acrobatically cunning and invigoratingly well-acted thriller."  

"The result is a comedy made by a man who has seen a lot of movies, knows all the mechanics, and has absolutely no sense of humor."  

"Eastwood displays a vigorous talent for sequences of violence and tension. He has obviously seen 'Psycho' and 'Repulsion' more than once"  

"'The French Connection' is a knockout police thriller with so much jarring excitement that it almost calls for comic-book expletives. POW!, ZOWIE!"  

"Russell's flamboyant theatricality and his interest in the perverse have been too much imposed on his other films; but here, style and subject are perfectly matched."  

"Klute is a sharp, slick thriller about murder, perversion, paranoia, prostitution and a lot of other wonderful things about life in New York City."  

"Gatsby's sad and curious history has resulted in a dull, dreadful movie."

"A slasher movie about gay panic, a nasty piece of homophobic angst for the age of AIDs"

"It is very fussy about period detail, and goes to some length to evoke the dim days of Depression America"

Degenerates into a lot of dull declaiming and attitudinizing, despite a sly tongue-in-cheek quality brought by a preening Stuart Townsend to the Lestat role"

"Sentimental without really being tender, naturalistic without being real."

"There are a few good scenes—an intricately executed train wreck, for example—but the movie is notably slack where it should be zestful."