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Mordaunt Hall, New York Times: Mr. von Stroheim has not missed a vulgar point, but on the other hand his direction of the effort is cunningly dramatic. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: McTeague is surely a great novel, but one reason Greed is even better is that Stroheim had more lived experience to bring to the material. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1925), like the Venus de Milo, is acclaimed as a classic despite missing several parts deemed essential by its creator. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Von Stroheim's rep, after a long dormancy, has been on the rise, and this is the best evidence of his work you'll get until someone finds those lost five hours in some Ukrainian subcellar. Read more