Refusing ever to dwell, it cuts sharp rather than deep, but sharp enough.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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The New Yorker by Pauline Kael
So calculatedly cool and soulless and nastily erotic that it seems to belong to a new genre of virtuoso viciousness. What makes the movie unusual is the metallic elegance and the singleminded proficiency with which it adheres its sadism-for-the-connoisseur formula.
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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Get Carter has the sure feel for the underbelly of society, like the good American detective novelists have always had.