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Vincent Canby, New York Times: There is a high degree of sometimes shocking intelligence running through Reversal of Fortune. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: What it all adds up to is something the film never quite seems prepared to address, but this is a fascinating look at all the secondary questions. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: What happened? Who knows? The movie's strength is its ability to tantalize, to turn the case this way and that, so that the light of evidence falls in one way and then another. You tell me. Read more
Time Out: This is a strange, unsatisfactory mixture of satire and docudrama which engages the mind and leaves the emotions intact. Read more
Variety Staff, Variety: It is a finely detailed manners study of the superwealthy, a drama of conflicting principles and values and an engrossing legal detective story. Read more
Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Irons founds his adroit performance, from cadaverous countenance to crooked pinky, on strangled passion and noblesse oblige. And astonishingly, he manages to make old Claus oddly pathetic, even sympathetic. Read more