I don't know if there's an audience for this kind of grueling, depressing experience, but Sorcerer might bring back the kind of moviegoer who used to cheer Humphrey Bogart. It's tough and unyielding as a pair of brass knuckles.

| Oct 26, 2021

For moviegoers who are convinced that more is more, "Sorcerer" is a big, fat, satisfyingly shapeless spectacle. For the rest of us it's a walnut of a movie-a good little melodrama surrounded by thick pulp.

| Feb 28, 2021

The director at his most brilliant and original.

| Feb 28, 2021

One can't help wondering if Sorcerer was awarded a "PG" rating before or after it was screened.

| Apr 23, 2018

A fierce, austere and intriguing film: a cinematic concerto of pessimism.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2017

Sorcerer is a stunning reimagining of a masterpiece, one that crucially doesn't try to replicate what came before. Instead, it follows its own dangerous path.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 27, 2017

By the time Sorcerer gets around to its rain-soaked, rickety-bridge set piece, you'll either be obsessed or fully checked out. Give yourself a chance to pick sides.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 28, 2014

First and foremost a lavish entertainment, no matter its brief examination of oil politics.

| May 27, 2014

Friedkin's cyclical, almost Kafkaesque insistence that politics revolves around now globalized, corporate power delegating hired guns to do under-the-table bidding across national boundaries announces itself through the soundscape.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 23, 2014

[...] a defiant, mad gesture of a film that features some of the most exhilarating sequences in movie history.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2014

The new movie is handsomely shot and crisply edited. Why, then, does one rather distantly respect it instead of just plain liking it? It is an odd, disappointing feeling to take away from a summertime movie.

| May 20, 2011

William Friedkin's Sorcerer is a painstaking, admirable, but mostly distant and uninvolving suspenser based on the French classic The Wages of Fear.

| May 16, 2008

Friedkin hints at political themes, but the film suffers most from condescendingly over-emphatic direction, and a generally tedious, relentless grimy realism in the opening half hour.

| Jan 26, 2006