Inside Daisy Clover 1965

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The talented director Robert Mulligan, apparently engulfed by studio overproduction, falters at times, not always knowing whether to play things straight or for laughs. Read more

David Denby, New Yorker: Wood's movements are spasmodic and graceless. The director Robert Mulligan can't quite find the rhythm, either. Some of the picture is whimsical, some of it as lugubrious as a horror movie. Read more

TIME Magazine: Hollywood self-satire is also a corridor of mirrors where movie makers are apt to start cringing. Read more

Time Out: Gavin Lambert's screenplay (from his own novel) lives in the land of the ambiguous and fey, which is probably why the film now seems subtle and attractive. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Covering a two-year period, the outcome is at times disjointed and episodic as the title character played by Natalie Wood emerges more nebulous than definitive. Read more