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Grim, violent, and stylishly directed, Get Carter is an interesting film that brings some freshness to British crime cinema.
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Possibly Caine's finest hour in one of the grittiest, most suspense-filled crime dramas of all time.
100
Get Carter has as much value as a piece of social history as it does as a thriller.
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Arguably the best British gangster movie ever made.
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There's no mistaking its chilling charisma and style. [11 Jun 1999, p.15]
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There are no good guys in this quietly gripping adaptation of Ted Lewis's 1969 novel Jack's Return Home, but cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky brings out the stark beauty of the North-East while capturing their attempts to kill each other. [09 Mar 2020]
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As bleak as it is hard and viciously uncompromising, Get Carter is one of those films that has become increasingly interesting over time.
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Mike Hodges' top-notch adaptation of a Ted Lewis novel not only maintains interest but conveys with rare artistry, restraint and clarity the many brutal, sordid and gamy plot turns.
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Its violence is so ghastly and unremitting and its view of the human condition is so perfectly vile that one would almost rather wash one's mouth out with soap than recommend it. Yet it is so finely acted and crafted—and is so spectacularly better than the run of its genre—that as a lover of movies one feels practically diity‐bound to sing its praises.
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Get Carter has the sure feel for the underbelly of society, like the good American detective novelists have always had.
