Dirk Bogarde offers one of his best performances... He is homosexual only by inclination, never by act. Yet even such equivocation is a big step towards candour, and casting a star in such a part demands courage.

| Jul 11, 2018

Victim may seem archaic. But even its compromises teach us something about the era that produced it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2018

The film's presentation of sexual oppression remains shockingly relevant to this day.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 22, 2017

[Victim] is a snapshot of social history that has dated in the past 40 years. But it is well worth watching for Dirk Bogarde's superb performance.

| Mar 13, 2015

What a gripping film -- melodramatic and self-conscious, yes, but forthright and bold.

| Feb 6, 2013

Impeccably liberal, weirdly restrained and, aside from anything else, a fascinating historical document.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2013

[Victim] has a careful performance by Bogarde, and it pursues with eloquence and conviction the case against an antiquated statute.

| Feb 6, 2013

If it now appears quaintly old-fashioned in its attitudes and assumptions, it still impresses thanks to Dirk Bogarde's performance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2013

Bogarde is subtle, sensitive and strong. Syms handles a difficult role with delicacy.

| Feb 27, 2009

There are many pleasures to be found in the quirky supporting cast, expressive, noir-style lighting and an effectively suspenseful opening.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 26, 2006

Still convincing as a thriller, if a little quaint now, in its approach to the themes surrounding homosexually.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2005

The very fact that homosexuality as a condition is presented honestly and unsensationally, with due regard for the dilemma and the pathos, makes this an extraordinary film.

| May 9, 2005

Recent critics find Victim timid in its treatment of homosexuality, but viewed in the context of Great Britain in 1961, it's a film of courage.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 12, 2004