“…playfulness is the defining characteristic, even if what it largely entails is a tragic gender gap of fatal proportions.”

“…a familiar yarn told in a somewhat unfamiliar drawl.”

“The bold cinematic techniques Welles employed in Citizen Kane are put to even more sophisticated use here.”

“One of the great movie mind benders.”

“…captures the tremors of illicit emotion that lie just below gilded surfaces.”

“…a full-blown exercise in mid-century film feminism.”

“Not a Hollywood spoof or satire, but an evisceration.”

“…a lukewarm exercise in timidity that – if not exactly embarrassed by its subject matter – is extremely wary of diving too deeply into it.”

“…a mid-century ode to a man whose time has passed.”

“…exquisitely joyful and romantic.”