Midnight Express is single-minded in its brutal manipulation of the audience: this is a clear-cut case of the use of film technique split off from any artistic impulse.

| Sep 18, 2023

Just another prison break movie... but I liked it.

| Aug 11, 2022

It's a film that probably wouldn't be made today, but it taps into a potent fear: losing your liberty far from home.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 22, 2018

Parker succeeds in making the prison into a full, real, rounded world, a microcosm of human behavior;

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 16, 2018