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

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

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

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

| Jan 3, 2018

Epic performances in a movie that seethes with atmosphere.

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

The blistering sexual repression is the entire point of the 1950s. Quite simply, fabulous.

| Nov 14, 2008

The film is perhaps best regarded as an intelligent and engaged recreation of the original Broadway experience, in which Jessica Tandy first played the role. There's no denying the awful horror and pity of the final scene.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 14, 2008

it's a close-to-definitive example of how to make a great play work on film, for all the very slight air of Hollywood compromise.

| Nov 14, 2008

There's an inevitable staginess to Tennessee Williams' devastating portrait of delusion and cruelty, but director Elia Kazan catches the squalid, claustrophobic atmosphere of a New Orleans tenement just right.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 14, 2008

...if the hothouse style was ever justified, this is the occasion.

| Jun 28, 2007

...Kazan achieves a sort of theatrical intensity in which the sweaty realism sometimes clashes awkwardly with the stylisation that heightens the dialogue into a kind of poetry.

| Feb 9, 2006

Shattering.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 26, 2003

Inner torments are seldom projected with such sensitivity and clarity on the screen.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 20, 2003

The camera has done greater justice to the Williams play, catching the nuances and reflected tragedy with an intimacy that is so vital in a story of this type.

| Feb 13, 2001

Despite the overwhelming power of Brando's performance, Streetcar is one of the great ensemble pieces in the movies.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Brando's performance as Stanley is one of those rare screen legends that are all they're cracked up to be.

| Jan 1, 2000

A wonderful screen drama.

| Jan 1, 2000