Night and the City

"'Night and the City' is no less than the archetypal film noir (...) Masterpiece (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)" 

"[Dassin's] evident talent has been spent upon a pointless, trashy yarn, and the best that he has accomplished is a turgid pictorial grotesque. (...) [Widmark] does not convey any subtle explanation of the character—or, indeed, any credibility". 

"Dassin’s approach to this material is more dramatically pungent than is customary for the genre, and less rooted in German Expressionism" 

"Fascinating, even though the stylised characterisations (...) remain theoretically interesting rather than convincing" 

"It works, largely because of star Richard Widmark's brilliant, desperate portrayal of a hustler on the edge, and skilled director Jules Dassin's cleverly atmospheric use of London locations (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"