Leave Her to Heaven 1945

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: A piece of cheap fiction done up in Technicolor and expensive sets. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: It may be absurd, and even risible, but its single-minded concentration has its own kind of fascination and power. Read more

Anthony Lane, New Yorker: As for the brother's death, with Ellen looking on coolly in white robe and shades, it remains one of the most perturbing in the history of Hollywood. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Stahl's use of space and the performances in Leave Her to Heaven...suggest he was at least the equal of the much-exalted Sirk as an artist of melodrama. Read more

Tom Milne, Time Out: Stahl is totally in control, his precise pacing and compositions lending a persuasive dimension of amour fou, while Leon Shamroy's camerawork makes each image a purring pleasure on the eye. Read more

Variety: Has emotional power in the jealousy theme but it hasn't been as forcefully interpreted by the leads as it could have been in more histrionically capable hands. Read more

Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: Tierney's Ellen Berent [is] one of cinema's most chilling psychopaths. Read more