Fresh
John Boorman's 1972 film of the James Dickey novel has a beautiful visual style that balances the film's machismo message.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Deliverance
What did happen on the Cahulawassee River?
1972 · 1h 49m · R
Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
John Boorman
Overview
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
89%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It's the stuff of which slapdash oaters and crime programmers are made but the obvious ambitions of Deliverance are supposed to be on a higher plane.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
It's a haunting, nightmarish vision.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Rotten
A fantasy about violence, not a realistic consideration of it.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
So many of Dickey's lumpy narrative ideas remain in his screenplay that John Boorman's screen version becomes a lot less interesting than it has any right to be.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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