87
Metascore
18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100EmpireDavid ParkinsonEmpireDavid ParkinsonSuspense gives way to metaphor in a stark thriller that hints at the work to come from master Carol Reed.
- Mason gives a grand performance, his voice racked with desperation and pain yet sonorous.
- 90The DissolveKeith PhippsThe DissolveKeith PhippsThough he has little coherent dialogue after a certain point, Mason is ideal as the embodiment of unsteadiness, physical and moral.
- 88Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThis may be Reed’s most pretentious film, but it also happens to be one of his very best, beautifully capturing the poetry of a city at night (with black-and-white cinematography by Robert Krasker that’s within hailing distance of Gregg Toland and Stanley Cortez’s work with Orson Welles).
- 88Slant MagazineSlant MagazineOdd Man Out is indeed a character study wrapped in the guise of a sociopolitical thriller, and a work which accordingly plays better when accentuating the moral and personal complexities of the former through the aesthetic prism of the latter, shedding the weight of topical investment even as the shadows of its influence hang literally and figuratively on the film’s dramatic landscape.
- 80The New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe New York TimesBosley CrowtherA most intriguing film.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThe documentary vividness that Carol Reed brought to the streets of Vienna in The Third Man and London in The Fallen Idol, he here brings to Belfast in this fascinating but imperfect 1947 thriller.