Body Heat 1981

Critics score:
97 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Janet Maslin, 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. Read more

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. Read more

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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Body Heat is good enough to make film noir play like we hadn't seen it before. Read more

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Though Lawrence Kasdan's film is set in today's South Florida, its characters move through an atmosphere that suggests the confluences of decor and demeanor in a 1940s film noir. Read more

Time Out: There's no denying the narrative confidence that brings the film to its unfashionably certain double-whammy conclusion. Read more

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