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Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic: It is almost superfluous to note that the film is beautifully made: visually exquisite, ingeniously knit. Read more
Bosley Crowther, New York Times: Mr. Bergman has laid out the materials upon a narrow and forbidding plateau and has got some magnificent performers to give light and shadow to it. Read more
Don Druker, Chicago Reader: Elaborately rhetorical at the end, this 1961 film nevertheless develops its theme lucidly and with some of Bergman's most unforgettable sequences. Read more
Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: You can freeze almost any frame of this film and be looking at a striking still photograph. Read more
TIME Magazine: Through a Glass Darkly is one of the best and certainly the ripest of Ingmar Bergman's creations, a film as subtle as Wild Strawberries but solider in substance. Read more