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New Yorker

[Welles'] scenes with brothel-keeper Marlene Dietrich have nothing to do with the plot and everything to do with the rotting heart of this amazing fable: the apotheosis of pulp.

March 12, 2013

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Times (UK)

The bravura of the opening sequence of Orson Welles's last Hollywood picture grabs you by the throat.

July 09, 2015

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Independent (UK)

It is typical of Orson Welles that he takes a B-movie thriller set on the Mexican border and gives it a Shakespearian grandeur.

July 16, 2015

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Chicago Tribune

Having the Touch of Evil envisioned by our most creative filmmaker, is a wondrous gift no movie lover should miss.

March 12, 2013

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Radio Times

Welles made the film that virtually capped a style he had helped create: you could say that the span of film noir started with Citizen Kane and ended with this movie.

July 09, 2015

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Time Out

A sweaty thriller conundrum on character and corruption, justice and the law, worship and betrayal, it plays havoc with moral ambiguities.

June 24, 2006

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Electric Sheep

Touch of Evil deserves to be watched multiple times, not for the story, but to absorb its brilliance and audacity.

July 10, 2015

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Entertainment Weekly

Indeed, just to see and hear the extraordinary 3 minute and 20 second opening sequence -- a fluid tour de force tracking shot -- without impediment of opening credits and street-sound-masking movie score is accomplishment enough.

September 07, 2011

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Slate

I first saw it when I was 14 and thought it was one of the worst pictures ever -- garish, oppressive, and appallingly overacted. Grown up, I'd go with those same adjectives, except now I think it's one of the best.

April 06, 2007

Guardian

Adapted by Welles from Whit Masterson's pulp thriller Badge of Evil, it had streaks of teen degradation and reefer madness, and the most intense interracial relationship since The Searchers.

July 09, 2015

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Little White Lies

Like the bomb that's lobbed in the boot of the soft-top car in its opening scene, Touch Of Evil is a film where we can hear the faint sound of ticking in our heads, but don't realise what the problem is before it's far too late.

July 10, 2015

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Los Angeles Times

Expressionistic in the extreme, filled with shadows, angles and cinematic flourishes, the film raises the usual brooding nightmare ambiance of film noir to a level few other pictures have attempted.

March 12, 2013

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