Charley Varrick doesn't even look good; the color is blah and runny, the compositions are squat and no more than functional, and the director, Don Siegel, slogs along from scene to scene.

| Sep 19, 2023

Thanks to Siegel's impeccable direction and to the imaginative script Howard Rodman and Dean Riesner fashioned from John Reese's novel "The Looters," this... becomes a compelling struggle between brains and brawn.

| Jun 11, 2021

As in all Siegel films, there is constant violence, but a sharp, clear focus and quick action prevents you from dwelling on plot inconsistencies.

| Jun 11, 2021

The action is fast, the chase scenes inventive, the acting superlative.

| Jun 11, 2021

It is sadistically brutal, based on a fault of logic or a warped moral code or both, and, get this, it is rated PG.

| Jun 11, 2021

Retains one's interest principally because of the thoroughly sordid world in which its story takes place.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 11, 2021

The film, like Walter Matthau's lead performance, becomes more good-naturedly humorous as it proceeds, and marks something of a return for Siegel to the liberal softie he used to be.

| Mar 18, 2020

Marvellous, toughly eccentric thriller which confirmed that Siegel had more responses to '70s paranoia than a mere Magnum blast, and decisively removed Matthau from the wasteland of Neil Simon wit.

| Feb 9, 2006

Siegel has decorated the movie with a lot of colorful bit characters including a chatty, sex‐obsessed old woman, but the action sequences give the film its content as well as style.

| May 20, 2003

A dynamite piece of work.

| Jan 1, 2000