Some Came Running
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: December 25, 1958 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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100
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
Wonderful stuff. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Philip French
A quite brilliant look at the hypocrisy and conformity of small-town life in the Midwest and those who challenge it. Read full review
80
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
This film captures the disillusionment of returning WWII vets, and brilliantly addresses itself to many of the director's characteristic concerns--masculine fear of domestication and attendant resentment of women; the tensions of masculine friendship; women's complicity in their own oppression; the compromises demanded of artists functioning under capitalism. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
The hypocrisy, sexual repression, and backwater snobbery here is enough to make Peyton Place look like Vatican City. Read full review
75
LarsenOnFilmJosh Larsen
If Some Came Running survives its dated gender politics, that’s all due to MacLaine. Her Ginnie—overly made up and yet disheveled, with hamburger bun crumbs on her sparkly cocktail dress—is the only one to lend the movie an authentic sense of dignity. Read full review
70
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
The story is pure melodrama, despite the intention of the original novel’s author, James Jones, to invest it with greater stature. But the integrity with which the film is handled by all its contributors lifts it at times to tragedy. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
A rambling fat memoir about a soldier returning home to a Midwestern city, where his roughhouse, bravura ways tear the delicate social fabric apart, has lots of sleazy, low-life glamour on the screen. Scenarist John Patrick and director Vincente Minnelli made it work in this memorable 1959 film.
50
The New York TimesBosley Crowther
It is all very complex and confused. Indeed, it is so oddly garbled that John Patrick and Arthur Sheekman, who did the script, have to go for a melodramatic shooting to bring it all to a tolerable end. Read full review
40
EmpireEmily Phillips
Stylish enough, but the plodding story inhibits the smooth sophistication of the film's stars. Read full review
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