Three Days of the Condor 1975

Vincent Canby, New York Times: At its best moments, Three Days of the Condor creates without effort or editorializing that sense of isolation -- that far remove from reality -- within which super-government agencies can operate with such heedless immunity. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Basically, the film is a throwback to the 60s anti-Bond spy thriller (a la The Ipcress File), except here the genre's annihilating irony has been replaced by Pollack's liberal piousness. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Three Days of the Condor is a well-made thriller, tense and involving, and the scary thing, in these months after Watergate, is that it's all too believable. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: The action rarely falters, and at its best the film offers an intriguing slice of neo-Hitchcock. Read more

Variety: Basically a B, it has been elevated in form -- but not in substance -- via four bigger names, location shooting and more production values. Sometimes the trick works, but not here. Read more