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Vincent Canby, New York Times: Holy smoke! What a pretentious and pedantic production he has made. Read more
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: This 1966 film often looks good (it was Truffaut's first in color, photographed by Nicolas Roeg), but the ideas, such as they are, get lost in the meandering narrative. Read more
Time Out: An underrated film, perhaps because it is less science fiction than a tale of 'once upon a time.' Read more
Pauline Kael, The New Republic: Even at the science-fiction horror-story level, the movie fails -- partly, I think, because Truffaut is too much of an artist to exploit the vulgar possibilities in the material. Read more