Turning the screws with a relentlessness that impresses even in this age of the ruthless, high-tech thriller, Clouzot strings together situations of vividly, almost sadistically imagined danger.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 1, 2014

Hitch's bomb-under-the-table suspense formula burnished to an expert sheen.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 6, 2011

The Wages of Fear contains tension-fraught stretches of "pure cinema" that probably gave even the Master cold sweats.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 6, 2011

Now seems much less like Salt of the Earth-as-a-potboiler and a lot more like the spiritual godfather to every testosterone-fuelled thrill ride since.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 20, 2009

A nail-biting drama that's a must-see.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 1, 2007

A significant influence on Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this grueling pile driver of a movie will keep you on the edge of your seat.

| Mar 1, 2007

A harrowing odyssey of four derelicts inching two trucks loaded with nitro-glycerine over a tortuous terrain puts this in the strong meat department with a downbeat theme of fear and its manifestations.

| Mar 1, 2007

A reeking bandana movie, with all the expected thrills, but a vision of men as scurrying insects with no redeeming features.

| Jan 26, 2006

The most nail-bitingly tense movie ever made, unbearably suspenseful.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 19, 2003

The excitement derives entirely from the awareness of nitroglycerine and the gingerly, breathless handling of it. You sit there waiting for the theatre to explode.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 20, 2003

An expertly directed, personally felt film.

| Jan 1, 2000

One of the all-time great truck movies.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The film's extended suspense sequences deserve a place among the great stretches of cinema.

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