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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)
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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."
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Rumsey Taylor
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Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
4.5/5
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Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
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