Unsurprisingly, Orson Welles doesn’t efface his artistic personality for The Trial.

| Sep 20, 2023

[A] singular two-hour experience, as dynamic and strange as anything Welles made.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 10, 2023

[A] fearless Kafka adaptation...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2022

Perkins gives one of the best performances of his career in The Trial, aided by an outstanding array of stellar players.

| Feb 20, 2019

Who better to reveal the system's evil genius than Welles, the golden boy turned Hollywood martyr?

| Aug 28, 2017

Overwhelmingly bleak, but exciting cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 29, 2012

Though debatable as an adaptation of the Franz Kafka novel, Orson Welles's nightmarish, labyrinthine comedy of 1962 remains his creepiest and most disturbing work; it's also a lot more influential than people usually admit.

| Apr 6, 2007

The blackest of Welles' comedies.

| Feb 9, 2006

At best, it is another demonstration of the camera vers atility of Mr. Welles; at worse, a further Kafka demonstration extending to the demanding medium of the screen.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 10, 2005

The Trial is splendid to look at and teeming with ideas about the individual, society, and of course, film itself.

Full Review | Oct 30, 2002

The more Joseph tries to understand, the more impenetrable it becomes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

It is, for anyone curious about the undiscovered territory in Welles' body of work, his most touching film.

| Jan 1, 2000

Above all a visual achievement, an exuberant use of camera placement and movement and inventive lighting.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000