In Cold Blood 1967

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: Excellent quasidocumentary, which sends shivers down the spine while moving the viewer to ponder. Read more

Don Druker, Chicago Reader: An uneasy mixture of facile Freudianism and 40s expressionism. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Hall's bleak vision, his gift for working with darkness and rain, rivals classic film noir of the 1940s and '50s in its visual mastery. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Brooks' great achievement in the film is to portray Smith and Hickock as the unexceptional, dim-witted, morally adrift losers they were. Read more

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Time Out: In contrast to Capote, whose obsessive documentation of the pair's every act betrays his fear than he (and his readers) could well do something similar, Brooks explains and sympathises away their act as being unique to them. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: A probing, sensitive, tasteful, balanced and suspenseful documentary-drama. Read more