... a surreal, abstracted crime drama, splintered with short, sharp shards of memory and driven by an unstoppable sentinel who may be more than flesh and blood.

| Apr 6, 2024

Walker isn't particularly likable, but his frantic grasps at purpose are far more meaningful than your typical revenge fare. A definitive entry in the genre.

| Nov 19, 2021

...an underwhelming adaptation of a vastly superior novel.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 13, 2021

While Richard Stark's novels about cool criminal Parker would inspire several films, this is by far the best.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 27, 2020

The best contemporary gangster melodrama we've had in a long time.

| Feb 3, 2020

Though tightly edited to 92 minutes, the movie bogs down at a few points, finally seems to have nowhere to go.

| Jan 22, 2019

Point Blank is an entertaining degenerate movie for its bit players: Michael Strong as a used used-car dealer, Lloyd Bochner and his sharkskin style of elegant menace.

| Oct 3, 2018

It's brutal. It may be 50 years old but it still shocks.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 18, 2017

A dazzling concerto of colors and syncopated sounds in which a bad man briefly returns to the living, and then disappears back into darkness.

| Aug 20, 2016

One of the four supreme masterworks in a major oeuvre ...

| Apr 1, 2013

An almost experimental discourse on crime, punishment and revenge brilliantly shot by Philip H. Lathrop.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2013

Boorman brought a fresh eye to the LA locations in a film frequently remade but never equalled.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 29, 2013

An intriguing, disorientating 60s artefact.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 28, 2013

A movie to saviour again and again on the biggest screen you can get to.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 28, 2013

Has aged as well as Lee Marvin's brown jacket and tangerine shirt ensemble - that is to say, spectacularly.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 28, 2013

Can be seen as heralding a turning point in Hollywood cinema, which was to lead to the innovative filmmaking of the 1970s and beyond.

| Mar 28, 2013

Boorman brings an existential bleakness and depth to his genre material (adapted from Donald E. Westlake's novel), and Marvin's minimal dialogue enhances the impact of his performance.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 22, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 13, 2008

Gritty, raw crime drama featuring tough Lee Marvin.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 21, 2008

O roteiro pouco inspirado ganha novos contornos graas performance durona de Marvin e, principalmente, as experincias de montagem feitas por Henry Berman.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2007