This movie is so abrupt and bleak and humorous. It's like...if Bresson and Melville had a baby, and that baby was Finnish...and had a sense of humor... ...this isn't much of a review...

This is one of the most violent, brutal movies I have ever seen. The final twenty-five minutes are just... so goddamn amazing. Dassin really has a talent for making these awesome setpiece climaxes. I can't believe how raw and violent this movie was for its day. Lancaster and Hume Cronyn are terrific. The final sequence is up there with Peckinpah when it comes to bloody climaxes.

One of the, if not THE most, under-rated directors ever. As much as I love Truffaut, Malle was so much better than any other French directors of his era. I don't know if there's a single director that made more different kinds of films that were still, not always, but a lot of the time, so personal. He also had HUGE balls. Kubrick-sized, Bunuel-sized balls for tackling ready-made social conventions. The guy made a sublime beautiful comedy about incest! C'mon! But he really feels for his characters a lot more than either of those guys. It sounds weird, but I've never felt closer to any other director than I do to Louis Malle. The themes he dealt with, his choice of images, the way his movies moved, the way his young characters relate to the world, and especially to how they relate to women... the way he tried not to repeat himself. I really really love this guy. ALSO, he wasn't afraid to fall flat on his face and start over again.

One of my all-time favourite movies. I love it even more than Brief Encounter - though that is, no argument from me, a better movie - I just find Summertime so... lyrical and beautiful and Hepburn is... so fucking delightful. I love this movie. It's great. ... Great. The technicolor photography is ... great? More greats? I don't know: great, great, great.

Can somebody say "masterpiece" ! . This is probably one of the best, like, classic-style murder mysteries. I think it's more murder mystery than noir... which could get me beaten up. It's really got the noir bite and grit and shadows, but it has such a...classical... oh whatever. It's fucking terrific movie. Gene Tierney is so beautiful and enchanting.

Terrific courtroom drama. Amazingly mature and adult for its day. Really one of Preminger's best. He was only as good as his material, and often made some shitty stuff, but this is certainly not one of them. Everything in this movie is basically perfect.

Subtle and poetic and a master storyteller. One of the best. He could get a bit too sentimental and a little too macho-BS sometimes, but he does so many other awesome things...who cares?

It's a real shame that this guy isn't mentioned in the same breath as Coppola, Scorsese, De Palma, and Spielberg. During the seventies, he was every bit as good. Hal Ashby had such a light touch and such a command of tone right off the bat, it's amazing. Granted, he didn't come from the same place as those guys, and was about twenty years older, but he really helped shape seventies American cinema. He's so over-looked. I guess there's a lot of reasons...the whole concept of auteur-theory (that dumb fucking thing) doesn't apply to him since he was usually a director for hire, but... doesn't being amazing trump that bullshit? ... I don't know. Awesome director.

One of the funnest movie's I've ever seen. It's probably Hitchcock's funnest movie. And he's funniest. I love it.

My favourite Hitchcock movie. Maybe because he does something that he doesn't do very often in this one: ambiguity. The movie is such a mystery to me. Every time I watch it, I see it in another way. It's really...really fucking good. Masterpiece.

If there was one Hollywood actress I could go back in time and kidnap and force to be my wife, it'd be Jean Arthur. Her saying Preston Sturges words is like screwball comedy heaven.

I've seen this movie several times. I was kind of baffled the first time I saw it. It kind of sticks in your mind. I love more and more when I watch it. Also, Dita Parlo is so goddamn adorable. She has such a great face. Vigo is probably a hero to anyone who wants to make movies. The guy basically made this movie while dying of TB. It probably caused him to die early. That's passion.

This movie has so much sixties style. It's very funny, at times. Sometimes it drags. But I really love to watch it. It makes me feel warm and happy. I totally fall in love with Claudine Longet every time I see it

When I'm watching way too many austere heavy dramas and feel like the world isn't worth living in, I have to watch this movie. It reminds me just how fucking fun a movie is allowed to be. Not to mention Kurt Russell is a goddamn hunk! ...

PT Anderson steps up to a top-tier writer/director and he's not even forty. By the time he's sixty, he'll be up there with the best of the best. I think he's the greatest working director - or at least, the greatest working American director today. And that includes Scorsese.

The best movie of 2008.