Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: October 16, 1970 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)John Doyle
Director Martin Ritt (Hud) keeps the movie powerful and tense until the ending, which is crudely manipulative. [22 Aug 1998, p.11]
60
This big-scale work, directed by Martin Ritt, is of solid craftsmanship but little style. James Earl Jones' Johnson is, however, intensely vital and larger-than-life. [10 Dec 1989, p.2]
50
Martin Ritt's big, noisy production clunks along like a disjointed play; it defeats Jones, and along the way it also inadvertently exposes the clobber-them-with-guilt tactics of the dramatist, Howard Sackler.