“The Parallax View” is a gripping thriller that will keep viewers on the edge of their seats, eagerly anticipating each new twist and turn in the story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 3, 2024

Fifty years after its release, The Parallax View holds up as a political thriller depicting the 1970s paranoia.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 14, 2024

The point of this sort of movie seems to be to arouse outrage without offending anyone.

| Mar 5, 2024

Excellent script by David Giler and Lorenzo Semple Jr, stunning photography by... Gordon Willis, and perfect acting, the story of Beatty's infiltration of the society and his attempt to foil yet another killing is riveting, fascinating and nerve-racking.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 24, 2024

[It] reflects the growing disillusionment and distrust Amerian society had for the era’s establishment.

| Mar 6, 2023

The Parallax View is a movie of splendid bits and pieces disappointingly strung together.

| Apr 20, 2022

...deliberately-paced yet mostly compelling...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 15, 2021

In many ways, Alan J. Pakula's 1974 film feels closer to reality now than it did upon release.

| Aug 31, 2021

the quintessential paranoid conspiracy thriller of the Watergate era

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 8, 2021

Beatty, who has never quite gotten the respect that he deserves as an actor, turns in one of his very best performances and the supporting cast is filled with strong turns from the likes of Hume Cronyn, William Daniels and Kenneth Mars.

| Feb 16, 2021

Forget The Exorcist, Alien, and even Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Parallax View might well be the scariest movie of the 1970s.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 12, 2021

The slippery facelessness of the conspiracy is the true nightmare.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 11, 2021

It's impeccably made, featuring sharp direction, incredible camerawork, and a remarkable turn from Beatty, but thanks to a somewhat lackluster script, this political thriller ultimately becomes a slow burn to a disappointing and unsatisfactory conclusion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 9, 2021

["The Parallax View" is] a journey into a starkly winding rabbit hole for a newspaper reporter named Joseph Frady, played by Warren Beatty.

| Feb 7, 2021

Parallax is taut and lean, and it's pure cold dread.

| Aug 14, 2020

Fortunately, there is an abundance of pulp detective razzledazzle.

| Dec 13, 2019

If you sit back and allow The Parallax View to zoom by without thinking a blessed thought, you may enjoy it on the most superficial level. But if, from time to time, out of a cursed habit, you do think, you may find it all a bit hollow at the core.

| Oct 28, 2019

Often eclipsing visible light in vampiric shadow, it feels like a premonitory vision of America at its most dangerously divisive. Unsparingly depicted in an unbroken take, the conditioning video is among Alan Pakula's monuments to masterful tension.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 24, 2019

The movie's director, Alan J. Pakula, works on location to get a nice feel of outdoor menace a lot of the time.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 29, 2018

Pakula and Gordon Willis' cinematography wring the ominous from the ordinary with utter severity

| Mar 15, 2010