John Schlesinger's follow-up to the electric "Midnight Cowboy" is a turgid love triangle, one of those films beloved by filmmakers -- all moments and behavior.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 5, 2025

…Gloomy yet glamorous, Sunday Bloody Sunday may depict sexual mores of a bygone era, but the situation is describes feels timeless in the hands of gifted film-makers…

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 15, 2023

For me, Sunday, Bloody Sunday is far and away the best film John Schlesinger has ever made: the surest, the truest, the most uncluttered.

| Jun 2, 2020

A most impressive achievement, superbly edited by its maker into a whole that is almost as satisfactory as its parts.

| Jun 2, 2020

Sunday Bloody Sunday is the song of those left behind, not the one doing the leaving.

| Mar 16, 2020

[G]round-breaking exploration of heterosexual and homosexual relationships.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2020

Too often, its adultness makes it seem as remote as the bed-hopping artiste at the center of this mess.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 16, 2020

What's most surprising about Sunday Bloody Sunday is that Finch and Jackson only share one scene together, yet it's the power of the performances that carries the entire film.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 16, 2020

It's a strikingly acted, discombobulating watch that will arouse nostalgia for decadent hippies and rubbish central heating.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2020

Oscar-nominated bisexual love triangle drama has mild sex.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2020

Glenda Jackson is the movie, with her silence, anguish, laughter, and tears. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 19, 2019

...the first mainstream film in which a gay man is totally guiltless about his homosexuality. He has not a moment of self-hate and certainly not a thought to suicide - not while he's having such a randy good time...

| Jun 24, 2019

Captivating while remaining unvarying in tone and pace...

| Oct 12, 2017

at its best plays as a powerful, deeply human reminder of how desperate we can be for connection, however compromised it may be

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 25, 2012

John Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday is a low-keyed, delicately-poised recital of triangular love in which Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch share the affections of AC-DC Murray Head.

| Mar 26, 2009

Performances of great sensitivity from the Oscar-nominated Jackson and Finch, who keep their passions buried beneath a hair-shirt of civility.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 12, 2008

Years after being made, this emotionally mature drama is still poignant and touching. It holds an important place in film history offering what's the first positive image of a gay lead character--that he's Jewish doctor makes it even more significant.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 9, 2007

Bloody Sunday is a classic example of a film running out of control at every moment...

| Jun 24, 2006

A bold film filled with powerful performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 5, 2005