The Year of Living Dangerously 1982

Vincent Canby, New York Times: A good, romantic melodrama that suffers more than most good, romantic melodramas in not being much better than it is. Read more

Rod McShane, Time Out: A curiously languid affair, rather than the breathless Costa-Gavras-style thriller which was the least one might have expected from this kind of material. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Weir and his crew expertly recreate the squalor, poverty, noise, heat and emotion of the pressure cooker that was Indonesia in 1965. Read more

Gary Arnold, Washington Post: [A] grievously flawed yet compelling tale of political intrigue, certainly a triumph of atmosphere if not of coherent dramatization. Read more