Deathtrap
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  • Starring: Christopher Reeve, Michael Caine
  • Summary: Sidney Bruhl, a playwriter (Caine) receives a play from a student (Reeve). With the help of his wife (Cannon), Sidney plans to murder the young man and take credit for the script.

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  1. Positive: 5 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    Deathtrap is a wonderful windup fiction machine with a few modest ambitions: It wants to mislead us at every turn, confound all our expectations, and provide at least one moment when we levitate from our seats and come down screaming.
  2. Time
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    70
    One can still appreciate the professionalism with which Levin crafted them and the larky spirits with which the performers force the suspension of incredulity.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    63
    This is an extremely faithful film adaptation of Ira Levin's gimmicky stage play.
  4. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Bruce McCabe
    50
    Deathtrap is slick enough that you can't disengage from it without missing something. [19 Mar 1982]
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    Deathtrap does have one virtue to counterbalance its ridiculously convoluted plot... it's guaranteed that you won't figure out the ending until the final curtain drops.… Expand

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