Fingers
Brut Productions | Release Date: March 2, 1978 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
SalonDavid Thomson
Fingers is still the best thing writer-director James Toback has ever done, and one of the most startling debuts in American film. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
It's the film that introduced the world to the harsh yet playful sensibility of its director, James Toback, and to the capacity and willingness of Harvey Keitel to embody the darkest of psychological and spiritual conditions. Read full review
75
USA TodayMike Clark
The movie is raw and over the top, yet it has an emotional force that more refined works only wish they had. [15 Nov 2002]
70
The New YorkerPauline Kael
Directing his first film, the writer James Toback seems to be playing the literary-adolescent's game of wanting to go crazy so he can watch his own reactions...Yet the film never seems ridiculous, because he's got true moviemaking fever.
67
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
A gangster psychodrama that doesn't play by genre rules, Fingers is a study in bold contrasts, mingling the sublime and the vulgar, classical music and '50s rock, brute masculinity and sexual confusion. Read full review
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