Fresh
One of John Huston's most original, most stunning movies.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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Wise Blood
Overview
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
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Fresh
This time, Huston has found material that was all but guaranteed to fuel the battiest recesses of his imagination.
Frank Rich, TIME Magazine
Fresh
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
This adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's novel is John Huston's best film for many years.
Chris Auty, Time Out
Fresh
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.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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