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Movie Overview
Cast
• Gloria Swanson
• William Holden
• Erich Von Stroheim
Director
• Billy Wilder
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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OFCS Rating: 92% Fresh
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5/5
"A demented circus of obsession, greed, and Hollywood"  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

A+
"A cynically dark recognition to Hollywood's forgotten stars."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

99/100
"Few pictures are greater than Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder's scathing assault on Hollywood's magnetism, aura, and fear of watching it pass you by..."  Film and Felt  Gabe Leibowitz

4/4
"This is the greatest film about Hollywood ever put on celluloid by Hollywood."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

4/4
"a then-unprecedented throwing back of the velvet curtain to reveal the exciting, but often sordid and dehumanizing, mechanics that run the Hollywood dream factory"  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

10/10
"The best thing about watching old movies is discovering the ones that feel so modern that, with a few touches here and there, barely altering the original product, they could actually fit right in with the quality movies of today."  Window to the Movies  Jeffrey Chen

A
"Wilder certainly gives an intimate portrait of Hollywood with all its warts and imperfections."  Old School Reviews  John A. Nesbit

10/10
"...one of the best films ever made about Tinseltown and its effects on the people who work in it."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

2.5/5
"if you have the dream to make it to Tinsel Town, you might want to check this flick out because Hollywood is as hard on dreams as it was back in the 1950s"  7M Pictures  Kevin Carr

5/5
"Caustic, scalding, and forever fabulous."  Film Threat  Phil Hall

"Tears away at the curtain that keeps reality away from fiction."  Movie Views  Ryan Cracknell

4/4
"The closest thing Wilder made to a horror film (in lighting, score, and character dynamic) after The Lost Weekend."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw

4/4
Read review  Oscar Guy  Wesley Lovell
OFCS Rating: 92% Fresh
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