Welles and Hayworth were married at the time; he gives her closeups of unmatched rapture even while allegorizing his own fate as a free spirit caught in the trap of Hollywood's delusional pleasure dome.
– Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Jan 2014
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For all the violations it suffered, The Lady From Shanghai seems strangely coherent in its extant form -- or rather, coherently incoherent, and in a way that seems quite deliberate.
– Calum Marsh,
Village Voice,
28 Jan 2014
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Be warned: This is a film that collects obsessives.
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out New York,
28 Jan 2014
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The climax, a shootout in a funhouse hall of mirrors, is one of the bravura sequences in all film, a triumph of hey-look-at-me form over just-the-facts content.
– Mark Feeney,
Boston Globe,
20 Feb 2014
fresh:
A magnificent mess of switchbacks and revelations, climaxing with one of cinema's most outrageously inventive sequences.