Straw Dogs 1971

Vincent Canby, New York Times: Mr. Peckinpah has made some good films (Ride the High Country) and a couple of great films (The Wild Bunch, The Ballad of Cable Hogue) -- which may be why Straw Dogs is a special disappointment. Read more

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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The most offensive thing about the movie is its hypocrisy; it is totally committed to the pornography of violence, but lays on the moral outrage with a shovel. Read more

Michael Sragow, Salon.com: Eyes Wide Shut -- and the cooked-up debates surrounding it -- are only about sex in the head. Peckinpah gives you sex as a kick in the groin, a jolt to the brain and a shot to the heart. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: Read more

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