"The defining patriarchs of American cinema—as embodied by James Mason and Dennis Hopper in these towering performances—are, fittingly, also the most monstrous."
"Dramas of entrapment and enervation—sly, haunting, eternally strange—from two of the most singular and most class-conscious directors the cinema has seen."
"Dramas of entrapment and enervation—sly, haunting, eternally strange—from two of the most singular and most class-conscious directors the cinema has seen."