Fuller hooks us into a complex moral web that never lets up.

| Feb 13, 2025

That, of course, doesn’t mean urban anxiety and corruption aren’t present in LA noir, but there remains something specifically and inherently New York about Fuller’s masterful Pickup on South Street...

| Jun 13, 2023

It remains a staple of Fuller’s masterful storytelling set in the city he once prowled as a beat reporter.

| Feb 28, 2023

A film that spits in the face of patriotism in favor of human survival.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 20, 2022

Sam Fuller directs with thrumming energy, enriched by glorious pulp dialogue (Youd be doing me a favor if you blew my head off, Are you wavin the flag at me?), and punched up with the unmistakably visceral physicality of Fullers onscreen action.

| Mar 12, 2022

This bruising, brutal movie was a major-studio release but still manages to emanate waves of B-movie street cred at every juncture.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 3, 2021

That Fuller would so subversively explore [communism] in the background of his film is worth a great deal of admiration, even if the final product doesn't leave the audience yearning for a revisit.

| Jul 2, 2021

...a compelling premise that's employed to watchable yet decidedly erratic effect by Fuller...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 21, 2020

...a well-plotted underworld story. A couple of scenes seem unnecessarily brutal, but my interest never lagged.

| Oct 31, 2019

Insanely slangy, deliriously hard-boiled noir...

| Mar 8, 2019

While applauding the patriotism of his low-lifes, Fuller powerfully evokes a '50s world of brutality, compromise and redemption.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 5, 2019

It took a director with Samuel Fuller's oblique angle of approach to find a vein of poetic anarchism in the conformist heart of the 1950s police-procedural melodrama.

| Aug 13, 2018

Like a spiky romantic comedy got stuck in one of the 1950s' bleakest visions of humanity - and it somehow all works magnificently.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 1, 2015

This atmospheric Cold War crime picture is a class act.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 6, 2015

As good as are Widmark, with his proto-Method grin, and Peters, with her tawny, untutored naturalism, this is Thelma Ritter's movie. She transforms what could have been no more than a colorful eccentric to a figure of unshakable dignity.

| May 26, 2015

Fuller's pugnacious direction and his gutter-up view of city life romanticize both the criminal code of honor and the jangling paranoia of global plots; his hard-edged long takes depict underworld cruelty with reportorial wonder ...

| May 25, 2015

Cold War anxiety merely heightens the already-combustible fabric of everyday America in Samuel Fuller's two-fisted masterpiece

| Dec 22, 2014

Almost perfect.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 14, 2009

Both Widmark and Peters are superb, but it is Ritter, as the seedy but much-loved Moe, who gives the film its emotional punch.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 27, 2009

Pickup for the most part falls flat on its face and borders on presumably unintended, comedy.

| Dec 1, 2008