Peyton Place
Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: December 11, 1957 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
EmpireKim Newman
Effective melodrama with some satisfying emotional confrontations, particularly from Lana Turner. Read full review
60
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
Tasteful adaptation of Grace Metalious' best-selling novel detailing the lives and loves of 'ordinary folk' in a small New England town. It comes with its full quota of sex, conspiracy and violence, but the story is told in such circumspect fashion that next to nobody was offended. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineEric Henderson
This was hot stuff in the mid-’50s, but beneath the sleazy coating covering the film (camp aficionados take note) is an unabashed and moderately retrograde plea for community openness. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Not to be confused with the suggestive, subversive melodramas of Sirk and Minnelli, this is the kind of hypertensive trash that gives melodrama a bad name, cynically tempering its naughty bits with smug moralizing. Read full review
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