Three Days of the Condor is a 1970s post-Watergate political thriller that more or less captured the paranoia at the time.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 21, 2024

A political thriller that, with pulse and tension, evokes in each scene the sense of paranoia that leaves the trail of a bureaucratic conspiracy, where one never knows what can happen around the corner. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 16, 2024

Sydney Pollack doesn't have a knack for action pulp.

| Oct 11, 2023

One of a handful of superb “paranoia thrillers” released during the post-Watergate 1970s, ranking alongside the high-powered likes of The Parallax View, The Conversation, and All the President’s Men.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 16, 2023

Slick, well-made entertainment.

| May 9, 2023

Director Sydney Pollack keeps the film moving along without rushing things and helps make Redford convincing as just a regular (if really, really smart) guy in way over his head.

| Apr 8, 2023

...there's plenty of underlying excitement about the way that the murky events unfold here...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2021

This peerless Sydney Pollack thriller hasn't just aged well, it's become positively prophetic, or at least eerily resonant.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 8, 2021

...it narrows its focus entirely to the cat-and-mouse chase at its core, boiling its post-Watergate theme of governmental indifference to human life down to the relationship between two professionals...

| Nov 10, 2020

As all the pieces begin coming together, the resolution slows, flawing the pacing that had started so smartly.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 31, 2020

What we are given is more than worth seeing.

| Nov 22, 2019

A piece of dotty, slightly paranoid intrigue. Three Days of the Condor promises little and keeps its word. It is hard to get indignant about it, or enthusiastic either.

| Aug 9, 2016

The excellent cast makes up for Pollack's occasional lapses in pacing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2016

While its thriller elements deliver, the film is undermined by a subplot that was surely over-egged even when it was made and which has only been further diminished by the passage of time.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 7, 2016

Bringing restraint and composure without skimping on the requisite tension and intrigue, Pollock builds a credible, character-led adventure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2016

A tense, taut and atmospheric thriller...

| Dec 22, 2015

Tense, violent '70s spy movie shows its age.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 5, 2015

A careful work of adjustment and prophecy

| Apr 19, 2010

remains entertaining and continues to hold up over the years

| Original Score: B | Mar 4, 2010

If the story had stuck to its guns as a political thriller, it would have been fantastic. However, the sideline story of a codependent lover made things screech to a halt.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 9, 2010