Critic Reviews
94
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
positive
19(95%)
mixed
1(5%)
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Angela Lansbury's frighteningly in-check performance is alone worth the trip.
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A veritable salad of mixed genres and emotional textures, this exciting black-and-white cold war thriller runs more than two hours and never flags for an instant...A powerful experience, alternately corrosive with dark parodic humor, suspenseful, moving, and terrifying.
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Here is a movie that was made more than 25 years ago, and it feels as if it were made yesterday. Not a moment of The Manchurian Candidate lacks edge and tension and a cynical spin. [Re-release]
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A dazzling spy thriller that’s still amazing.
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The Manchurian Candidate proves that its fascination is intact. [12 Jan 1998, p.C1; Re-Release]
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It may be the most sophisticated political satire ever made in Hollywood. (As quoted by Roger Ebert)
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One of the wildest fabrications any author has ever tried to palm off on a gullible public. But the fascinating thing is that, from uncertain premise to shattering conclusion, one does not question plausibility of the events being rooted in their own cinematic reality.
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Manchurian, with its fatalistic, dreamlike quality, comprises two of [Frankenheimer's] finest hours. [Re-release]
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It’s a sensational piece of genre filmmaking: pacy, compelling, witty and cynical, it depicts, in unflinching detail, the beginning of the end for post-war American optimism.
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This is an oddball classic that leaves you weak with pleasure. [11 Mar 1988]
