Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award6 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
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There's no denying the narrative confidence that brings the film to its unfashionably certain double-whammy conclusion.
– ,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
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Body Heat is good enough to make film noir play like we hadn't seen it before.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
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While Body Heat involves murder, fraud, a weak hero led astray and a seductive, double-dealing broad, it also incorporates something new: a sexual explicitness that the old films could only hint at.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
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Though Lawrence Kasdan's film is set in today's South Florida, its characters move through an atmosphere that suggests the confluences of decor and demeanor in a 1940s film noir.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
8 Feb 2008
fresh:
Lawrence Kasdan's 1981 noir fable is highly derivative in its overall conception, but it finds some freshness in its details.