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  • 1974
  • R
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 1974
  • R
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m

Summary An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.

Directed By: Alan J. Pakula

Written By: David Giler, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Loren Singer, Robert Towne

  • 1974
  • R
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 1974
  • R
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 42 m

The Parallax View

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 13 User Ratings
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Summary An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.

Directed By: Alan J. Pakula

Written By: David Giler, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Loren Singer, Robert Towne

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Excellent performances; fascinating film.
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Parallax View is Pakula's best to date; its intrigue is honest, its logic unassailable, and its performances first rate. [24 June 1974, p.58]
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75
The Parallax View will no doubt remind some reviewers of Executive Action, another movie released at about the same time that advanced a conspiracy theory of assassination. It's a better use of similar material, however, because it tries to entertain instead of staying behind to argue.
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The mother of all conspiracy movies.
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63
As with Pakula's earlier suspenser, Klute, the eerie ambience of menace is coolly and smoothly handled, but for my taste the suspenseful set pieces go on much too long, and the message—that right-wing conspiracy is built into the American political and corporate structure—is overstated.
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60
A movie of splendid bits and pieces disappointingly strung together. [25 July 1974, p.70]
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40
The movie, which directed by Alan J. Pakula, never rewards the attention we give it with anything more substantial than a few minor shocks.
By Vincent Canby FULL REVIEW

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6.6
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8% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 13 User Ratings
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77% Positive
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8% Mixed
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15% Negative
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Production Company Doubleday Productions, Doubleday, Gus, Harbor Productions
Release Date Jun 19, 1974
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Assassination. Try to see it from their point of view.
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Awards

Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Writers Guild of America, USA
• 1 Nomination

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