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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottSlickly-made parapsychological murder mystery featuring a solid performance by Faye Dunaway as a fashion photographer who sees murders in her mind's eye. [06 Sep 1978]
- 70The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinIt's the cleverness of Eyes of Laura Mars that counts, cleverness that manifests itself in superlative casting, drily controlled direction from Irvin Kershner, and spectacular settings that turn New York into the kind of eerie, lavish dreamland that could exist only in the idle noodlings of the very, very hip.
- 70The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelDirected by Irvin Kershner, the film has a few shocking fast cuts, but it also has scabrous elegance and a surprising amount of humor.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinSan Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinThis movie borders on the ridiculous, but is pulled back by an aesthetic portrayal of the supernatural and by its stars.
- 40TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineParts of the film are nasty enough to grip the audience, but a large portion is muddled and sometimes laughably pretentious.
- 40EmpireWilliam ThomasEmpireWilliam ThomasToo glossy to evoke real sexual tension or, more crucially in this genre, fear, Laura Mars suffers from the over complication of something so simple as serial killing.
- 40NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenAlmost perversely, Laura Mars breaks the easiest of movie promises: here is a movie about the Beautiful People that hasn't bothered to make them beautiful. [14 Aug 1979, p.62]
- 38Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertEyes of Laura Mars tries to say Serious Things about fashion photography, corruption in advertising, and the violence in our society. It does not succeed, but it tries. We would not, however, hold its Serious Things against it, if the movie also succeeded as a thriller. It doesn't, unless your idea of being thrilled is having people leap out of the shadows and then turn out to be friends.
- 30Time OutTime OutA shallow, chic confusion of eyes, camera lenses, and saleable images of violence of the sort it now purports to question as an 'issue'.