Flannery O'Connor's incisive sense of person and place is brilliantly captured in this 1979 film adaptation of her highly regarded first novel, which plays out as a broad comedy set within a timeless purgatory.

| Original Score: 5/6 | Aug 4, 2020

This time, Huston has found material that was all but guaranteed to fuel the battiest recesses of his imagination.

| Sep 19, 2014

John Huston, with uncluttered direction and expert handling of actors, has fashioned a disturbing tale of the fringe side of overzealous religious preachers in the deep South.

| Jul 6, 2010

Huston's Wise Blood is a sharp, busy canvas that, like a man with a good car, doesn't need to be justified.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 13, 2009

This adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's novel is John Huston's best film for many years.

| Jan 26, 2006

One of John Huston's most original, most stunning movies.

| May 20, 2003

Disturbing and grim in its portraits, Wise Blood is nevertheless marvelous storytelling and its performances are virtually divine.

| Mar 10, 2003

Along with The Man Who Would Be King and The Dead, this is arguably John Huston's best literary adaptation, and conceivably his very best film.

| Jan 1, 2000