Gorky Park 1983

Janet Maslin, New York Times: It remains a taut, clever thriller throughout, with Mr. Apted's direction establishing its intensity immediately and sustaining it well. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Some action-movie slam-bang would have been more satisfying, if ultimately no more coherent. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: By the end of Gorky Park, we realize that it's not the solution that matters, but what the case itself forced the people to discover about themselves. Read more

Time Out: Neither Dennis Potter's screenplay nor the heavyweight cast can raise this adaptation of Martin Cruz Smith's best-selling spy novel above the ordinary. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: William Hurt is superb as a Moscow militia detective caught between his desires to be simply a good cop and the unfathomable motives of the secret Soviet government, all complicated by an unexpected love for Joanna Pacula. Read more