Night Moves 1975

Vincent Canby, New York Times: An elegant conundrum, a private-eye film that has its full share of duplicity, violence, and bizarre revelation, but whose mind keeps straying from questions of pure narrative to those of the hero's psyche. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: One of Penn's best features; his direction of actors is sensitive and purposeful throughout. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Arthur Penn's Night Moves is about an old-fashioned private eye who says and does all the expected things while surrounded by a plot he completely fails to understand. Read more

Time Out: Essential viewing. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Night Moves is a paradox: a suspenseless suspenser, very well cast with players who lend sustained interest to largely synthetic theatrical characters. Read more