Ferocity, brutality, muscle, vulgarity, crudity, naked realism and sheer genius are to be found -- great hunks of them --in Von Stroheim's production, Greed. It is a terribly powerful picture -- and an important one.

| Oct 7, 2021

I never entered a picture house with more anticipation and departed with greater disappointment.

| Sep 24, 2020

The McTeagues' downfall isn't the standard self-destruction through venturing down a path of crime, but rather a familial degradation of dubiety, hatred, and desperation.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 27, 2020

'Greed' is realistic cinema, many years before the Nouvelle Vague appeared, with Stroheim delving into the human soul, as only he knew how to do, bringing out the worst, and also the best, of people. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 22, 2020

Greed, Von Stroheim's epic, broke the ground for realism.

| Apr 21, 2020

On behalf of the minority of film-goers who will, however even they may be shocked by [Erich von Stroheim's] fierce realism, perceive that he has made here a masterpiece in quite a new manner, one feels inclined to thank him.

| May 8, 2018

A fascinating, exhilarating, immensely satisfying experience.

| Sep 3, 2015

The picture brings to light three great character performances by Gibson Gowland as McTeague, Jean Hersholt as the chum, and ZaSu Pitts as the wife.

| Feb 23, 2012

Von Stroheim's rep, after a long dormancy, has been on the rise, and this is the best evidence of his work you'll get until someone finds those lost five hours in some Ukrainian subcellar.

| Jun 17, 2008

Even in its severely edited form Von Stroheim's masterpiece is just that; a masterpiece.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 12, 2006

Mr. von Stroheim has not missed a vulgar point, but on the other hand his direction of the effort is cunningly dramatic.

| Mar 25, 2006

Even now its relentlessly cynical portrait of physical and moral squalor retains the ability to shock, while the Von's obsessive attention to realist detail is never prosaic.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 29, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 7, 2005

Von Stroheim's butchered masterpiece

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 3, 2004

Von Stroheim's groundbreaking film is still intriguing.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 9, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 8, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 9, 2004

[Stroheim's] obsession with realistic detail reached its zenith during the final sequences in Death Valley, where the actors suffered hugely for the director's art.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 28, 2003