As effectively as almost any movie ever made about American suburbia, The Swimmer gets the contentment that comes with material success[...] And it gets how the fantasy is hard to sustain.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2014

A resounding commercial flop, this has since been recognized as a signature 60s film, prescient in its view of American self-deception.

| Oct 30, 2007

A largely loony but oddly compulsive allegory.

| Jun 24, 2006

As do few movies, The Swimmer stays in the memory like an echo that never quite disappears.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 9, 2005

Burt Lancaster is superb in his finest performance.

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

An enigmatic, poetic, disturbing, interestingly pretentious fable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 1, 2003