As close to a classic as anything New Hollywood produced.

| Feb 18, 2020

What lifts it above its B-picture origins (and the pastiche is certainly conscious) is the style -- crisp, elliptical, only moderately arty -- of Alan J. Pakula's direction.

| Feb 12, 2020

This is done with remarkably little dialogue but with a tremendous sense of tension and atmosphere.

| Feb 12, 2020

A movie resolutely of its moment that still surges with third-rail electricity ...

| Nov 24, 2015

Produced handsomely in New York, but directed tediously by Alan J. Pakula, the film is a suspenser without much suspense.

| Jul 7, 2010

[Fonda] makes all the right choices, from the mechanics of her walk and her voice inflection to the penetration of the girl's raging psyche. It is a rare performance.

| Aug 30, 2009

For once, a genuinely psychological thriller.

| Feb 9, 2006

With Fonda and Sutherland, you have actors who understand and sympathize with their characters, and you have a vehicle worthy of that sort of intelligence. So the fact that the thriller stuff doesn't always work isn't so important.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 23, 2004

Pakula, when he is not indulging in subjective camera, strives to give his film the look of structural geometry, but despite the sharp edges and dramatic spaces and cinema presence out of Citizen Kane, it all suggests a tepid, rather tasteless mush.

| May 21, 2003

Fonda and Sutherland are at the top of their game in this mystery/thriller that also provides a fasinating look into the mind and soul of a top NYC callgirl.

| Mar 10, 2003

Informed in part by the conventions of film noir...Klute manages to distil them all into something highly original and distinctly unsettling.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 17, 2001