Fonda is simply a revelation, beautiful, sassy and streetwise, and yet hauntingly vulnerable. She deserved her Oscar in a role she has never bettered.
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08/30/09
Klute (1971)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:5
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.3/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Adapting the traditional structure of 1940s film noir detective movies, director Alan Pakula created a thriller that addressed the 1970s issue of the compromises faced by a woman trying to maintain... [More]
Starring: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Roy Scheider, Rita Gam
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Reviews for Klute
1 - 6 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticFor once, a genuinely psychological thriller.
02/09/06
Top CriticInformed in part by the conventions of film noir...Klute manages to distil them all into something highly original and distinctly unsettling.
04/17/01
Top Critic[Fonda] makes all the right choices, from the mechanics of her walk and her voice inflection to the penetration of the girl's raging psyche. It is a rare performance.
08/30/09
Top CriticWith Fonda and Sutherland, you have actors who understand and sympathize with their characters, and you have a vehicle worthy of that sort of intelligence. So the fact that the thriller stuff doesn't always work isn't so important.
10/23/04
Top CriticPakula, when he is not indulging in subjective camera, strives to give his film the look of structural geometry, but despite the sharp edges and dramatic spaces and cinema presence out of Citizen Kane, it all suggests a tepid, rather tasteless mush.
05/21/03
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