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Movie critics combined give Conversation, The (1974) a score of 3.3683 out of 4
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Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
As he is played by Gene Hackman in "The Conversation," an expert wiretapper named Harry Caul is one of the most affecting and tragic characters in the movies; he ranks with someone like Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman" or the pathetic captives of the ...read the complete Conversation movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
As "The Conversation" slowly weaves its absorbing and intricate web, it works its way under your skin, drawing you into its sense of paranoia, until you are sharing the same feelings as the protagonist, who in this case is a man named Harry Caul (Gene ...read the complete Conversation movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for DVD JournalDVD Journal
Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation harks back to the days of paranoia, the Kafkaesque aftermath of the hippie movement, when the once free-spirited hedonists were overwhelmed by the belief that the monolithic government (the same one that killed ...read the complete Conversation movie review at DVD Journal
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Empire Magazine (Ian Freer)Empire Magazine (Ian Freer)
A fantastic reminder of why 70s Hollywood is so often the benchmark for modern moviedom to aspire to. ...read the complete Conversation movie review at Empire Magazine (Ian Freer)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
Well ahead of its time, this is one of Coppola's masterpieces, a prophetic film about paranoia, the growing role of technology in our daily lives, and the impossibility of privacy even in public spaces. ...read the complete Conversation movie review at EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Netflix (James Rocchi)Netflix (James Rocchi)
Director Francis Ford Coppola's paranoid classic is brilliantly revived on DVD. ...read the complete Conversation movie review at Netflix (James Rocchi)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
A unique film, enhanced further by a great sound track by Walter Murch. ...read the complete Conversation movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)
One of Coppola's very best. ...read the complete Conversation movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
...read the complete Conversation movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for eFilmCritic.com (--)eFilmCritic.com (--)
Hackman's Harry Caul is the best damn Orkin man on the planet, meaning he can bug anybody, anytime, anywhere. He's also paranoid and desperately unhappy, recognizing, at least subconsciusly, how tenuous that privacy truly is since he takes it from people ...read the complete Conversation movie review at eFilmCritic.com (--)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) sits on a park bench in Union Square wearing his strange, transparent raincoat. He watches Frederic Forrest and Cindy Williams walking in circles, singing "Red Red Robin." It's a moment that will haunt him for the rest of his ...read the complete Conversation movie review at Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
A precious and unnerving thriller, one that never fails to offer some kind of Hitchcockian surprise, as the film is unpredictable throughout. Gene Hackman is brilliant as the loner "electronic surveillance expert," who through a slow-process comes to ...read the complete Conversation movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Friday and Saturday Night (--)Friday and Saturday Night (--)
“Blow Up” is one of those direct masterpieces, about the very nature of film and photography, whose existence was inevitable. The movie asks: is the filmmaker’s duty to recreate reality or to impose his will upon an artificial reality? Is man ...read the complete Conversation movie review at Friday and Saturday Night (--)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for AboutFilm.com (Frances Nicole Rogers)AboutFilm.com (Frances Nicole Rogers)
Francis Ford Coppola is best known for his adaptation of Mario Puzo's The Godfather, a highly influential and successful film that spawned two sequels. Fans of that trilogy, then, seeking for more of Coppola's work, may be taken aback by The ...read the complete Conversation movie review at AboutFilm.com (Frances Nicole Rogers)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Movie Reviews UKMovie Reviews UK
A stunningly acted, unsettling drama of wire-tappers and the consequences of their actions, The Conversation leaves a searing impression. Gliding slowly over a typical San Francisco lunchtime scene, the camera picks up crowds of office types meandering ...read the complete Conversation movie review at Movie Reviews UK
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for digitallyOBSESSED.com (Justin Stephen)digitallyOBSESSED.com (Justin Stephen)
The Conversation opens with an aerial view of Union Square in downtown San Francisco. The camera zooms in. A young couple walks in random patterns throughout the park, trying but failing to look casual. They make small talk for awhile, admiring street ...read the complete Conversation movie review at digitallyOBSESSED.com (Justin Stephen)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for ToxicUniverse.com (Tony Pellum)ToxicUniverse.com (Tony Pellum)
Almost all great films either establish or demolish the status quo. This is seen most clearly when film history is divided into different eras—Casablanca epitomizing the classic thematic and formal tendencies, The Graduate striving against the ...read the complete Conversation movie review at ToxicUniverse.com (Tony Pellum)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for DVD Verdict (Paul Corupe)DVD Verdict (Paul Corupe)
"This is a quad in the center of a city. All right, these are steps coming in here, benches all around. Now, it's 12 noon, which means it's lunchtime for all the people that work in these offices around here. The people are walking, talking, having ...read the complete Conversation movie review at DVD Verdict (Paul Corupe)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for DVD TimesDVD Times
Francis Ford Coppola, in between the first two "Godfather" films, took the opportunity to direct a script he had written in the late sixties called The Conversation. It wasn't particularly successful with audiences on first release, not least because the ...read the complete Conversation movie review at DVD Times
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for Guardian/ObserverGuardian/Observer
A surveillance expert who gets involved in a case finds himself plunged into high-level power-plays and murder ...read the complete Conversation movie review at Guardian/Observer
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for DVD Authority.com (Matt Brighton)DVD Authority.com (Matt Brighton)
Sometime after Francis Ford Coppola Directed and won the Best Director Oscar for "The Godfather", he followed it up with a movie called "The Conversation". Now, by today's standards, this movie moves at a snails pace as we're used to the high-energy, ...read the complete Conversation movie review at DVD Authority.com (Matt Brighton)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 3.74 out of 4 stars for Brilliant Observations on 1173 Films (Clayton Trapp)Brilliant Observations on 1173 Films (Clayton Trapp)
ene Hackman rides the city bus and tells people he doesn't have a phone. No one seems to think this unusual and he keeps it in a drawer. Then his life changes when he eavesdrops on Laverne & Shirley (ok, just Shirley and some guy). He feels somewhat ...read the complete Conversation movie review at Brilliant Observations on 1173 Films (Clayton Trapp)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Apollo Guide (Brian Webster)Apollo Guide (Brian Webster)
A wonderfully intelligent experience. ...read the complete Conversation movie review at Apollo Guide (Brian Webster)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 3.53 out of 4 stars for eFilmCritic ReviewseFilmCritic Reviews
Before he did things which can only be marginally regarded as entertainment such as JACK (reputedly a favorite of HBS' own Slyder), Francis Ford Coppola was, for a time, maybe the most accomplished filmmaker on the planet. No one questions of the genius ...read the complete Conversation movie review at eFilmCritic Reviews
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Time Out (--)Time Out (--)
An inner rather than outer-directed film about the threat of electronic surveillance, conceived well before the Watergate affair broke. Acknowledged as the king of the buggers, Hackman'ssurveillance expert is an intensely private man. Living alone in a ...read the complete Conversation movie review at Time Out (--)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for DVD MovieGuideDVD MovieGuide
Francis Ford Coppola's provoking mystery-drama explores the morality of privacy and stars Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, expert surveillance man. A routine wire-tapping job turns into a modern nightmare as Harry hears something disturbing in his recording ...read the complete Conversation movie review at DVD MovieGuide
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for DVD Talk (Aaron Beierle)DVD Talk (Aaron Beierle)
In "The Conversation", Gene Hackman plays Harry Caul, a surveillance expert; he is a master at secretly recording conversations and turning over information to clients. For a man who makes a living inspecting the lives of others, he wants nothing but to ...read the complete Conversation movie review at DVD Talk (Aaron Beierle)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Crazy for Cinema (Lisa Skrzyniarz)Crazy for Cinema (Lisa Skrzyniarz)
One of the strangest and most compelling thrillers I've seen in a very long time. It's taken me a while to gather my thoughts about this piece, which gets under your skin like a parasite. Hackman proves why he's one of the best actors of his generation ...read the complete Conversation movie review at Crazy for Cinema (Lisa Skrzyniarz)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Filmtracks (Christian Clemmensen)Filmtracks (Christian Clemmensen)
The Conversation: (David Shire) "He'd kill us if he had the chance." ...The most memorable line from one of the very best films of the early 1970's, the Francis Ford Coppola thriller starring Gene Hackman and a young Harrison Ford. It is a film for which ...read the complete Conversation movie review at Filmtracks (Christian Clemmensen)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Apollo Guide (Brian Webster)Apollo Guide (Brian Webster)
Harry Caul ( Gene Hackman) has helped create a monster, and now that he realizes the extent of his folly, he’s terrified that he might be its next victim. The monster is high-tech surveillance – high-tech by the standards of the early 1970s. The ...read the complete Conversation movie review at Apollo Guide (Brian Webster)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks)The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks)
The haunted surveillance expert, who pursues a case (seemingly of marital infidelity) that demonstrates his rarified human emotion, discovers that he has become the victim of his own technological profession and intrigue by film's end. [His last name, ...read the complete Conversation movie review at The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks)
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Boxoffice MagazineBoxoffice Magazine
It's not often that a director produces two masterpieces in one year, only to have one so totally overshadow the other that it almost falls into obscurity. That, however, was the case in 1972 when Francis Coppola supplemented "The Godfather Part II" with ...read the complete Conversation movie review at Boxoffice Magazine
Conversation, The (1974) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for DVDnett.noDVDnett.no
Og The Conversation er ikke noen ordinær film. Ingen ringere enn Francis Ford Coppola har manus og regi på dette spennende thriller-dramaet, som han lagde i 1974, i tiden mellom The Godfather og The Godfather Part 2. ...read the complete Conversation movie review at DVDnett.no
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