Hudson is brilliantly befuddled, unable to ever relax in his own, second skin. In his newfound creative persona, he's the picture of unadaptability, and it seems only a matter of time before his world crumbles around him. This is all photographed in entrancing, kinetically framed, and often wide-angled black-and-white by the legendary James Wong Howe, who gives nearly every scene an omniscient quality, as though the characters—and us—are under constant surveillance.
Michael Koresky
April 22, 2013