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The Onion A.V. Club
Kasdan's moody tribute to cinema's dark past set a gold standard for neo-noirs that has seldom been equaled. Full Review
Bruce McCabe
Boston Globe
Lawrence Kasdan's Body Heat--an homage to film noir--gets off to a nice start before it becomes entangled in its convoluted and somewhat uninteresting plot machinations. Full Review
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
Lawrence Kasdan's 1981 noir fable is highly derivative in its overall conception, but it finds some freshness in its details. All in all, this evokes the spirit of James M. Cain more effectively than the 1981 remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice did. Full Review
Janet Maslin
The New York Times
While Body Heat involves murder, fraud, a weak hero led astray and a seductive, double-dealing broad, it also incorporates something new: a sexual explicitness that the old films could only hint at. Full Review
Jay Scott
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Hurt is so good at capturing the charming and chilling Ned that he almost makes up for the film's two primary weaknesses: Kasdan's inexperience and a message of significant unpleasantness. [28 Aug 1981, p.P17] Full Review
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