Out of the Past
RKO Radio Pictures | Release Date: December 1, 1947 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
85
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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60
The New York TimesBosley Crowther
The style is still sharp and realistic, the dialogue still crackles with verbal sparks and the action is still crisp and muscular, not to mention slightly wanton in spots. But the pattern and purpose of it is beyond our pedestrian ken. Read full review
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The New YorkerPauline Kael
A thin but well-shot suspense melodrama, kept from collapsing by the suggestiveness and intensity that the director, Jacques Tourneur, pours on.
50
TimeStaff (Not Credited)
Fairly well played, and very well photographed (by Nicholas Musuraca), the action develops a routine kind of pseudo-tension. Read full review
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