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78
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Body Heat is good enough to make film noir play like we hadn't seen it before.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

Kasdan's moody tribute to cinema's dark past set a gold standard for neo-noirs that has seldom been equaled.Full Review

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

Nathan Rabin
The Onion (A.V. Club)

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

Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader

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

Janet Maslin
The New York Times
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