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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: The new movie is handsomely shot and crisply edited. Why, then, does one rather distantly respect it instead of just plain liking it? It is an odd, disappointing feeling to take away from a summertime movie. Read more
Time Out: Friedkin hints at political themes, but the film suffers most from condescendingly over-emphatic direction, and a generally tedious, relentless grimy realism in the opening half hour. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: By the time Sorcerer gets around to its rain-soaked, rickety-bridge set piece, you'll either be obsessed or fully checked out. Give yourself a chance to pick sides. Read more
Variety Staff, Variety: William Friedkin's Sorcerer is a painstaking, admirable, but mostly distant and uninvolving suspenser based on the French classic The Wages of Fear. Read more
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice: First and foremost a lavish entertainment, no matter its brief examination of oil politics. Read more