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97
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It's terse, atmospheric, fatalistic, with vertiginous camera angles and edits offsetting its gray documentary flatness.Full Review

Jay Carr
Boston Globe

The new print does justice to Philippe Agostini's splendidly atmospheric cinematography.Full Review

Desmond Ryan
Philadelphia Inquirer

Manages to inject more than a little humor into this tension-filled genre classic.Full Review

Frank Lovece
TV Guide

One of the great crime thrillers, the benchmark all succeeding heist films have been measured against, it's no musty museum piece but a driving, compelling piece of work, redolent of the air of human frailty and fatalistic doom.Full Review

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times

Among the picture's many surprises is a superb robbery scene filmed in a near-total silence that contrasts exhilaratingly with the noisy flamboyance of more recent films in this venerable genre.Full Review

David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor
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