This is thoughtful and beautifully observed work, from the social backdrop and the tell-me-what-you're-feeling analysis sessions to the painful performances including Mary Tyler Moore playing against type as the chillingly repressed mother. - Empire more »

One of Woody's most aesthetically gorgeous films as well as his classic love-hate letter to the city of his soul. - Empire more »

It was the complete nightmare that invented the "summer blockbuster", launched the genius on a global scale and delivered an astonishingly effective thriller built on a very primal level: fear. - Empire more »

Its faults - sketchy narrative, overblown abstraction - are counterbalanced by its gripping engagement between man and machine, and its rhapsodic wonder at heaven and earth and the infinite beyond. - Empire more »

If hell is in the details, Roman Polanski has captured it here in his disturbing portrait of falling into psychosis. - Empire more »

Audrey Hepburn is delicious as Holly and the Henry Mancini score is in the class of elite soundtracks. - Empire more »

Witty, warm and beautifully filmed by Franz Planer and Henri Alekan, it remains an unabashed romantic delight, with Hepburn particularly luminescent. - Empire more »