Le locataire 1976

Vincent Canby, New York Times: The film is superbly acted by Mr. Polanski, Mr. Douglas and Miss Winters. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: The end result is somewhere between Franz Kafka and William Castle, but still worth seeing. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: As a film by Polanski, it's unspeakably disappointing. Read more

Time Out: As the plot escalates into increasingly arbitrary excesses of fantasy and heads for the predictable pay-off, the movie looks more and more like a potboiler. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: It has a humorous tang, underlying the macabre. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: It's an exercise in urban paranoia and mental disintegration that echoes or anticipates everything from Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby to Bitter Moon and The Pianist. Read more