... elegance incarnate in a genre known for its hard edge, the sleekest, silkiest noir of all.

| Nov 18, 2023

Onscreen, Tierney plays an icon who entrances everyone around her, but the performer's life off-camera lends the role tragic insight that makes the film unforgettable.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 12, 2022

...piles up the intrigue and obsession.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 14, 2021

Rounded off with haunting theme music and sharp black-and-white cinematography (which took home an Oscar), this is a positively top-notch film noir.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 13, 2020

Murder, as we say, has not looked so attractive in several seasons.

| Jun 17, 2020

A masterly mix of expressionism and street realism, this ranks among the undisputed masterpieces of German silent cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 16, 2020

What remains of Laura is not only the ability of the scriptwriters and director to keep the mystery of the film noir but the originality of the dramatic structure and the attempt to delve into the psychological characteristics. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 28, 2019

It's one of the smartest of all noirs, and thus among the most enticingly savage and dangerous.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Dec 17, 2016

A feverish trance wrapped in a deadpan investigation

| Jul 15, 2013

Preminger deals in facades, with how perception cheats us, right down to the ideal image of Laura as a portrait. (Cinmathque Annotations on Film)

| Original Score: 10/10 | Mar 21, 2013

Masterpiece: with time, Preminger's second film has become richer in texture and deeper, more ambiguous in meaning than most noirs of the 1940s.

| Original Score: A | Apr 25, 2012

Preminger made darker, more characteristically noir films than this, but his only movie that's as good, or perhaps better, is Anatomy of a Murder.

| Feb 25, 2012

Will leave you drunk with delight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2012

The dialogue is stinging and the performances to be savoured in a haunting study of romantic obsession that deserves its return to the big screen.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 23, 2012

Laura is still every bit as gripping in 2012.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 23, 2012

A thrilling, absorbing and original example of the genre; it's also beautifully shot, pure escapist entertainment.

| Feb 23, 2012

Not only one of Preminger's greatest, but one of the great noirs.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 23, 2012

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2012

OK, the plot verges on absurdity - but who cares?

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 13, 2012

Few movies make you feel dirtier, and so perversely grateful for the pleasure.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 20, 2011