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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90IGNIGN3 Days of the Condor is a classic spy thriller. It remains just as relevant and thrilling today as it did in 1975. It's a film built around political metaphors and pessimism, trends that continue to spiral and evolve throughout our culture even today, with events unfolding that oddly mimic this film's once outlandish plot.
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA well-made thriller, tense and involving, and the scary thing, in these months after Watergate, is that it's all too believable.
- 80CineVueAdam LowesCineVueAdam LowesAdd to the mix gregarious powerhouse producer Dino De Laurentiis, plus regular Redford directorial collaborator Sydney Pollock and, unsurprisingly, the resulting film is a cracking thriller.
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineA thrilling pseudo-expose on the corrupt inner workings of covert organizations.
- 70Time OutTime OutThanks to an intelligent script, partly by Lorenzo Semple Jr (Pretty Poison, The Parallax View), the action rarely falters, and at its best the film offers an intriguing slice of neo-Hitchcock.
- 50NewsweekJack KrollNewsweekJack KrollAs a straight thriller Condor comes down to thrills that work and thrills that don't. [29 Sep 1975, p.84]
- 50The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelSydney Pollack doesn't have a knack for action pulp; he gets some tension going in this expensive spy thriller, but there's no real fun in it.
- 40Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrBasically, the film is a throwback to the 60s anti-Bond spy thriller (a la The Ipcress File), except here the genre's annihilating irony has been replaced by Pollack's liberal piousness.