“…an ecological, existential nightmare.”

“…all about Humphrey Bogart’s face.”

“You get a full performance from Gloria Grahame, then bonus ones from each of her eyebrows.”

“…registers most strongly as a piece of anti-isolationist propaganda.”

“A Heavenly Creatures riff, though with much less imagination and far thinner psychology…”

“…has an eerie familiarity that is at once banal and claustrophobic.”

“Despite the child kidnapping, assassination plot, and relatively high body count, this primarily plays like a comedy.”

“…a prescient prediction of the way fanboy culture would come to influence the creative process.”

“…less concerned about male threat and more interested in feminine desire.”

“…what begins as a swooning pastoral soon develops into a kinky, Southern Gothic nightmare.”