75
Metascore
17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- The Stunt Man is a bravura piece of moviemaking — a true popular work of modernist art. It makes the audience experience the uncertainty of the contemporary world in a visceral, often hilarious way.
- 89Austin ChronicleAustin ChronicleO'Toole plays his seductive, grand, and dangerous director part as if this might be the role he wants to be remembered for.
- 80TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineLawrence B. Marcus's script, which pits real life against reel life, offers plenty of wit, with most of the bons mots handed to O'Toole.
- 80The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe Stunt Man still thrills as a witty, sly, action-packed mind game.
- 75Film ThreatFilm ThreatSubtle, neurotic and multi-layered, every scene in The Stunt Man is about multiple things at once. Paranoia, obviously, but also the stress of filmmaking and simply living.
- 70Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrPretentious, overenergized, muddled, intellectually bogus, and very entertaining for it.
- 70TimeRichard SchickelTimeRichard SchickelA carnival of bang-up stunt scenes. which Richard Rush presents with marvelous subtlety.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA film that depends on deceiving us has got to play by its own rules. If we are going to be deceived in general, fine, but then we can't be cheated on particulars.
- 50Time OutTime OutA movie filled with gags and excellent stunts which remains curiously humourless at heart. Stunted, not stunning.