Sisters provides moviegoers with the special satisfaction of finding a real treasure while prowling cinema's bargain basement.

| Sep 28, 2022

The facetious dialogue is a wet blanket, and De Palma isn't quite up to his apparent intention -- to provide cheap thrills that are also a parody of old corn.

| Sep 28, 2022

During a second viewing, filled with the security of knowing when to look away, I was able to really watch the picture, and I found it to be one of the best thrillers I have seen.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 28, 2022

In its modest way, Sisters is a triumph of style, a tour de force of storytelling with the camera that is as rigorous and disciplined as the gifted young director's earlier "Greetings" and "Hi Mom!" were freewheeling.

| Sep 27, 2022

Despite an absence of the tension necessary for a successful thriller, Sisters is salvaged by decent performances.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 27, 2022

The succession of references stops just short of the risible, while the use of the split-screen to show scenes from different angles and the elaborate tracking shots indicate the arrival of a prodigious new stylist forging an original signature.

| Oct 3, 2018

An expertly paced, technically audacious thriller that's too knowing to be easily dismissed as a mere exercise.

| Oct 3, 2018

Sisters is a good psychological murder melodrama... Brian De Palma's direction emphasizes exploitation values which do not fully mask script weakness.

| Oct 3, 2018

De Palma's 1972 thriller is the first of his films to assemble all his signature traits ― Gothic excess, stylistic bravado, a freewheeling approach to plot construction, and a manner of borrowing from Hitchcock that is as much parody as homage.

| Sep 14, 2018

A dead end -- the mark of a superficial stylist unable to take anything seriously, including his own work.

| Sep 24, 2007

There is much early evidence of [De Palma's] rampant misogyny, his increasingly blatant stealings from Hitchcock, and most unforgivable of all, his clear distaste for the people he creates.

| Feb 9, 2006

Just the thing to see on one of those nights when you want to go to the movies for the old-fashioned fun of it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2005

An undeniably tight homage to Hitchcock, but I'm still inclined to place it at least a tier below the likes of Dressed to Kill and Body Double.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 20, 2005

De Palma directs with a nice feeling for the incongruous.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004