The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957

Critics score:
89 / 100

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Bosley Crowther, New York Times: Unless a viewer is addicted to freakish ironies, the unlikely spectacle of Mr. Williams losing an inch of height each week will become tiresome before Universal has emptied its lab of science-fiction cliches. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: The surreal intensity of outsize objects that loom as the hero shrinks is handled effectively, and the mystical happy ending is a better payoff than one would expect of the genre. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: A moving, strangely pantheist assertion of what it really means to be alive. A pulp masterpiece. Read more

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