Targets 1968

Howard Thompson, New York Times: Targets scores an unnerving bullseye. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: An interesting response to the demands of low-budget genre filmmaking. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Targets isn't a very good film, but it is an interesting one. Read more

TIME Magazine: The endlessly repetitive fusillades suggest that Writer-Director Peter Bogdanovich, in his first film, was really intent on creating the most prolific murderer in Hollywood's long history of violence. Unfortunately, it is a record made to be broken. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: A fascinatingly complex commentary on American mythology, exploring the relationship between the inner world of the imagination and the outer world of violence and paranoia, both of which were relevant to contemporary American traumas. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Aware of the virtue of implied violence, Bogdanovich conveys moments of shock, terror, suspense and fear. Read more