Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Critic Reviews

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Janet Maslin New York Times (Top Critic)

90

There's a little something extra in virtually every frame of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Philip Kaufman's dazzling remake of one of the cleverest of horror classics/
Full Review » 8 years ago
Joe Morgenstern Wall Street Journal (Top Critic)

Gives remakes a good name.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Dave Kehr Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

Ideas that Siegel knocked off in a few shots are expanded to fill entire sequences -- but they're good ideas, and can stand a little stretching.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Variety Staff Variety (Top Critic)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers validates the entire concept of remakes.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Richard Schickel TIME Magazine (Top Critic)

This film wants to have it both ways: to have a more urbane, more "important" scope than the original, and yet retain some of its inexpensive intimacy as well.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Wesley Lovell Cinema Sight

88

This terrific remake never lets the audience forget that it should be frightened.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Film4

90

Very entertaining, and despite the by now over familiar-plot, pleasantly suspenseful.
Full Review » 2 years ago
James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk

100

one of the great sci-fi horrorshows, a movie that gooses you with its premise, makes you laugh and jump, and ultimately leaves you with something you can't quite shake
Full Review » 3 years ago
Richard T. Jameson Parallax View

[Philip] Kaufman's version persuasively asserts its right to life as an imaginative reflection of our time...
Full Review » 3 years ago
Fernando F. Croce CinePassion

Siegel gave the frissons classical sharpness while Kaufman goes for baroque erudition
Full Review » 3 years ago
Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy

90

If not quite as great as its predecessor, still a pretty damn fine genre picture.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

It's not only the best of the four films based on Jack Finney's story, but also one of the best films of the 1970s.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Bruce Dancis Sacramento Bee

100

A superior sci-fi thriller that makes even raindrops, plants and electrical cords take on sinister life.
Full Review » 6 years ago
TV Guide's Movie Guide

63

The film collapses midway -- because of unsure and sloppy direction, splintered story continuity, and the overacting of Adams, Cartwright, and others.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Geoff Andrew Time Out

Kaufman here turns in his most Movie Brattish film, but soft-pedals on both his special effects and knowing in-jokiness in a way that puts De Palma to shame.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Steve Crum Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers

80

Not as terrifying as the original, but still a shocker.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com

80

Full Review » 8 years ago
Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily

88

A cerebral and suspenseful film of foreboding atmosphere. On a short list of truly outstanding remakes.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

60

Full Review » 8 years ago
Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall

80

utterly chilling
Full Review » 9 years ago
Thomas Delapa Boulder Weekly

80

Full Review » 9 years ago
Sarah Chauncey Reel.com

60

Scary at the time, campy fun now
Full Review » 9 years ago
Daniel M. Kimmel Worcester Telegram & Gazette

80

Full Review » 9 years ago
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality and Practice

Invasions of the Body Snatchers speaks to our national paranoia amd intrigues us with its craftiness.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Rebecca Murray About.com

80

Full Review » 10 years ago