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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
It becomes as savage as ''Reservoir Dogs,'' ''The Killing,'' or any of the other dozens of films over which it still casts a shadow.
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Boston Globe Jay Carr
It's terse, atmospheric, fatalistic, with vertiginous camera angles and edits offsetting its gray documentary flatness.
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Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan
The new print does justice to Philippe Agostini's splendidly atmospheric cinematography.
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Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
No matter how many heists you've seen, how many gangs you've watched fall apart or how many aging crooks you've seen walk up a mean street to a violent destiny, Rififi never loses its ruthless grace and force.
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Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Among the picture's many surprises is a superb robbery scene filmed in a near-total silence that contrasts exhilaratingly with the noisy flamboyance of more recent films in this venerable genre.
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San Francisco Examiner G. Allen Johnson
A sweaty-browed exercise in precision filmmaking, but one that doesn't cheat you with wisps of tension and the pretense of attitude.
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Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Rififi, with its stark visuals, dark humor and constrained performances, earned Dassin the Best Director nod at the Cannes Film Festival and a secure place in film history.
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TV Guide Frank Lovece
Manages to inject more than a little humor into this tension-filled genre classic.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
The granddaddy of all caper/heist movies. The work that defined the genre for the subsequent four decades of filmmakers, none of whom was able to surpass it for style or suspense.
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Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
But the human elements -- jealousy, anger, weakness, fortitude, loyalty, vengeance and honor, all acted out by a resolutely realistic cast -- make the movie extraordinary.
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