Accident 1967

Peter Keough, Boston Globe: Of Losey's three collaborations with Pinter (the other two are 1963's The Servant and 1970's The Go-Between), it is the most challenging and influential. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Dirk Bogarde's crumbling don is the sharpest of the many similar performances he has given, and Stanley Baker is superbly chunky as Bogarde's rival for a young Austrian student (Jacqueline Sassard). Read more

Martin Tsai, Los Angeles Times: The film's didactic indifference also makes it unclear whether Stephen ups the ante or gets his comeuppance in the end. Read more

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: The whole thing is such a teapot tempest, and it is so assiduously underplayed that it is neither strong drama nor stinging satire. It is just a sad little story of a wistful don. Read more

Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: The film is put together as carefully as a Hitchcock. Read more

Wally Hammond, Time Out: 'Accident' now seems a little self-conscious in its modernist, 'quality' art-cinema pretensions. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Bring a date, because you'll need to talk this one through. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: A firstrate cast is headed by Bogarde, who wins sympathy for his superficially cold character, and his contained way with emotion is superbly right. But the main acting surprise is contributed by Stanley Baker. Read more

Calum Marsh, Village Voice: Losey and Pinter locate the pain that lurks deep within complacency, and the film positively throbs with it. It's an old idea, perhaps. But in their hands it hurts anew. Read more