“ABOVE ALL A VISUAL ACHIEVEMENT,
an exuberant use of camera placement
and movement and inventive lighting.”
— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“A frenzy of Expressionistic images…
burst through the screen to evoke an oppressively incomprehensible system of edicts and constraints. And who better to reveal the system’s evil genius than Welles, the golden boy turned
Hollywood martyr?”
— Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“The blackest of Welles’ comedies, an apocalyptic version of Kafka that renders the grisly farce of K’s labyrinthine entrapment in the mechanisms of guilt and responsibility as the most fragmented of expressionist films noirs.”
— Paul Taylor, Time Out London