...Simple storytelling, vivid effects and a disturbing premise which is followed through to the bitter end; Arnold and Matheson are cult figures now, and this is reason enough for their canonisation....

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 23, 2024

Jack Arnold’s screen adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel 'The Shrinking Man' is compassionate, intelligent, and the most metaphysical American science fiction film until Stanley Kubrick’s '2001: A Space Odyssey.'

| Jan 6, 2024

It feels a lot like other horror films with incredible special effects...

| Feb 28, 2023

The Incredible Shrinking Man undoubtedly feels of its time, but it’s messages and deep seeded thought-provoking topics are universal and timeless.

| Oct 26, 2022

Gratefully one hails a science-fiction film which is both inventive and humane.

| Aug 9, 2022

The fact that it succeeds so well in engaging us on the level of pure experience while also challenging the social norms and conventions of its era makes it a unique and compelling film, far outstripping its B-movie status.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 5, 2022

Resting on the same elevated plateau as The Day the Earth Stood Still and Invasion of the Body Snatchers as among the best of the science fiction films of the 1950s.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 7, 2021

The film's trick photography is pretty good. The acting, pretty poor. Regardless, it holds a horrible fascination.

| Sep 24, 2021

Ever see a man four inches tall? There he is, living in a doll's house, until the cat puts him out. Two inches tall -- he's moved into a match box in the cellar and is fighting a spider for food in a duel to the death with a straight pin.

| Sep 24, 2021

The plot has no subtleties, but set designs and photography are so ingenious that the story is haunting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 24, 2021

Oversize sets and trick photography are extremely obvious and utterly unconvincing.

| Sep 24, 2021

The moviegoer who is not a science-fiction addict might well come to the conclusion that he should disappear before the film's hero does. Or, better still, not show up at all.

| Sep 24, 2021

It will be pleasant to see Williams and Miss Stuart again. They are far better theatrically than the usual run of players in this type of picture.

| Sep 24, 2021

It doesn't matter that the cast has no "name" players. The strange story and the special effects, are the thing.

| Sep 24, 2021

As a science-fiction effort it's an interesting film and certainly great credit should go to U-I's cameramen and other technicians for their ingenious film and scale model work.

Full Review | Sep 24, 2021

An unusual and fascinating horror melodrama.

| Sep 24, 2021

The story Is not told with the convincing logic which makes the most Imaginative science fiction acceptable. Its explanations are full of holes, it lacks form, and It ends without satisfaction.

| Sep 24, 2021

These sequences, done with great ingenuity and some good trick photography, are so gruesome as to be downright unpleasant.

| Sep 24, 2021

Viewers who can get into the mood can actually believe that they are watching a six-footer gradually shrink to one inch in height -- without being aware that the sets are getting bigger and bigger.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 24, 2021

The special effects department and the set designers deserve all the credit for the film. They have worked cinematic wonders.

| Sep 24, 2021