Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: What a pack of trashy people these accomplished actors perform! Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Burl Ives and Judith Anderson are highly entertaining as the nightmare parents, Big Daddy and Big Mama, and Jack Carson has one of his last good roles as Newman's competitive older brother. Read more

TIME Magazine: A formaldehyded tabby that sits static while layer after layer of its skin is peeled off, life after life of its nine lives unsentimentally destroyed. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: As so often with adaptations of Williams, it frequently errs on the side of overstatement and pretension, but still remains immensely enjoyable as a piece of cod-Freudian codswallop. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: An intense, important motion picture. Read more