Despite the overwhelming power of Brando's performance, Streetcar is one of the great ensemble pieces in the movies.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
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Brando's performance as Stanley is one of those rare screen legends that are all they're cracked up to be.
– Lloyd Rose,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
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Inner torments are seldom projected with such sensitivity and clarity on the screen.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
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...Kazan achieves a sort of theatrical intensity in which the sweaty realism sometimes clashes awkwardly with the stylisation that heightens the dialogue into a kind of poetry.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
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...if the hothouse style was ever justified, this is the occasion.