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Movie Overview
Cast
• Austin Stoker
• Darwin Joston
• Laurie Zimmer
Director
• John Carpenter
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

REVIEWS
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OFCS Rating: 90% Fresh
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"Like Night of the Living Dead', it offers a protagonist who is black, a morality that is grey, and social commentary in the guise of horror."  Movie Gazette  Anton Bitel

C
"It's a cult film that's not as great as some would lead you to believe, but it has its amusing and ruthless moments of shock and schlock."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

4/4
"...there’s no mistaking the modern racial and sexual politics encoded in the distinctly western elements of Carpenter’s lean, mean, genre-defying masterpiece."  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

3/4
"Suspenseful, stylish and full of attitude!"  Montreal Film Journal  Kevin N. Laforest

4/5
"A good late-night movie, tense enough to keep you looking over your shoulder but corny enough to provide fodder for endless jokes."  Goatdog's Movies  Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

A-
"As formally compact and rigorously efficient as anything the genre filmmaker ever made."  Lessons of Darkness  Nick Schager

A
"Assault on Precint 13's powerful exercise in democracy [...] is nothing short of one for the ages."  Projection Booth  Rob Humanick

"Assault on Precinct 13 is derived from the ’70s popular crime genre, largely composed of borrowed pieces, each polished and radiant."  Not Coming to a Theater Near You  Rumsey Taylor

3.5/5
Read review  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

4.5/5
Read review  Netflix  James Rocchi

Read review  DVD Savant  Glenn Martin Erickson

Read review  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick
OFCS Rating: 90% Fresh
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