Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 1956

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: While the purpose may be exemplary, the method the gentlemen employ is highly dubious as a practical exposition. And once it is revealed to prove their point, it should certainly put them in a pickle for conspiring to subvert justice and fool the courts. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Once he's raised the standard social issues, Lang destroys them all with a shatteringly nihilistic conclusion. Read more

Tom Milne, Time Out: Lang's most austere film, reducing the characters to pawns arbitrarily shifted in demonstration of a fascinating theorem. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Fritz Lang's direction does what it can to inject suspense and interest but the melodrama never really jells. Read more