Performance 1970

Critics score:
84 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Rapture and boredom both seem valid responses. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It isn't altogether successful, largely because it tries too hard and doesn't pace itself to let its effects sink in. Read more

Jay Cocks, TIME Magazine: Pop stars continue to have bad luck in films. Read more

Tom Milne, Time Out: Roeg's debut as a director is a virtuoso juggling act which manipulates its visual and verbal imagery so cunningly that the borderline between reality and fantasy is gradually eliminated. Read more

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J. Hoberman, Village Voice: The movie is a facile enough pastiche of underground pyrotechnics and Euro-art pretensions, but far more evocative now is the fast, offhand repartee between the principals. Read more