Sorcerer 1977

Critics score:
80 / 100

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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Read more

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: The new movie is handsomely shot and crisply edited. Why, then, does one rather distantly respect it instead of just plain liking it? It is an odd, disappointing feeling to take away from a summertime movie. Read more

Time Out: Friedkin hints at political themes, but the film suffers most from condescendingly over-emphatic direction, and a generally tedious, relentless grimy realism in the opening half hour. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: By the time Sorcerer gets around to its rain-soaked, rickety-bridge set piece, you'll either be obsessed or fully checked out. Give yourself a chance to pick sides. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: William Friedkin's Sorcerer is a painstaking, admirable, but mostly distant and uninvolving suspenser based on the French classic The Wages of Fear. Read more

Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice: First and foremost a lavish entertainment, no matter its brief examination of oil politics. Read more