It’s rough, depressing, and unstarched, but it's so potent because of the characters. They are overflowing with energy and life and it is impossible not to be mesmerized by them despite their dysfunction.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Its international success doubtless arises mostly from its relative boldness as well as its eroticism. But this work is not without theatrical qualities: authentically dramatic, it also develops a certain poetic atmosphere.

| Jan 5, 2022

The emotions are dialled up to 11 by the sweltering New Orleans heat and Marlon Brando's physique, which is matched by his titanic performance.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 26, 2021

The story proceeds as Tennessee Williams first wrote it, except that all the frankest -- and most crucial -- dialogue has been excised and the last scene has been churned disastrously to satisfy the Johnson office but confound the spectator.

| Sep 15, 2021

By the end of this Elia Kazan production, the revelations aren't shocking or memorable or morbidly palatable; in many ways, they're just depressing.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 23, 2020

Elia Kazan's claustrophobic close-ups do a fine job of recreating the intensity of the stage.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2020

Even taking this performance alone, Brando's work deserves to be known as an abiding cinematic performance. Amongst cowardly and callous acts, there still rests a level of pathos to the character.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2020

Vivien Leigh's virtuoso portrayal was the year's finest acting...in the same picture Marlon Brando gives a brilliant and appalling performance as a primeval brute.

| Nov 26, 2019

Some movie goers will be bored by its unlovely subject and wealth of talk, but others will admire it as an excursion into art.

| Aug 7, 2019

Also screened was A Streetcar Named Desire, revamped with the four additional minutes that were excised years ago by censors. It was being paraded about as if a half-hour had been added. So now Stella walks down the steps sultrily.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 9, 2019

Vivien Leigh gives one of those rare performances that can truly be said to evoke pity and terror.

| Jan 3, 2018

The fact it was the fifth most lucrative film in its year of release is a depressing sign of how we have infantilized ourselves as spectators. [Full review in Portuguese.]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 7, 2016

Seeing the film reminds us instantly of our perennial desire to be swept up into a compelling story.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 29, 2014

Tennessee Williams filled the tinderbox. Marlon Brando ignited it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 31, 2013

... a Hollywood landmark, both for pushing the envelope of subject matter allowed on screen by the censors and for showcasing the more naturalistic "method" approach to performance ...

| May 19, 2012

An unqualified masterpiece.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 25, 2012

Epic performances in a movie that seethes with atmosphere.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 10, 2012

Starring Brando and Vivien Leigh, Kazan's screen version of Williams' masterpiece is the best film made out of the playwright's theaterical work.

| Original Score: A | Mar 15, 2011

"Stella!" classic is powerful tale of abuse, alcoholism.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 17, 2011

Has a permanent place amongst the classics, not only for the performances but for Tennessee Williams' raw writing about people raw with pain, fear, longing and complicated feelings

| Feb 20, 2009