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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Time OutTime OutWonderful stuff.
- A quite brilliant look at the hypocrisy and conformity of small-town life in the Midwest and those who challenge it.
- 80TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThis film captures the disillusionment of returning WWII vets, and brilliantly addresses itself to many of the director's characteristic concerns--masculine fear of domestication and attendant resentment of women; the tensions of masculine friendship; women's complicity in their own oppression; the compromises demanded of artists functioning under capitalism.
- 78Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThe hypocrisy, sexual repression, and backwater snobbery here is enough to make Peyton Place look like Vatican City.
- 75LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenLarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenIf Some Came Running survives its dated gender politics, that’s all due to MacLaine. Her Ginnie—overly made up and yet disheveled, with hamburger bun crumbs on her sparkly cocktail dress—is the only one to lend the movie an authentic sense of dignity.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasA rambling fat memoir about a soldier returning home to a Midwestern city, where his roughhouse, bravura ways tear the delicate social fabric apart, has lots of sleazy, low-life glamour on the screen. Scenarist John Patrick and director Vincente Minnelli made it work in this memorable 1959 film.
- 50The New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe New York TimesBosley CrowtherIt is all very complex and confused. Indeed, it is so oddly garbled that John Patrick and Arthur Sheekman, who did the script, have to go for a melodramatic shooting to bring it all to a tolerable end.