A Place in the Sun
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: August 14, 1951 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
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8
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
The chemistry between Clift and Taylor is unmistakeable – this is one of the great cinematic portraits of untamed desire – and there’s a compelling sense of unavoidable destiny, of a societal trap slowly, inexorably snapping shut. Read full review
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Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Hopelessly inadequate as a reading of Dreiser's great novel, and as usual Stevens seems too preoccupied with the story's monumentality to have much curiosity about its characters. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
George Stevens, a tireless moralizer and part-time embalmer of American myths (Shane), directed this melodramatic adaptation of Dreiser's An American Tragedy, and what does not seem facile in it seems overwrought. Read full review
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