The film's stark relentlessness has power to move an audience. Full Review

Rating: A -- One of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's brilliant melodramas from the 1970s. Full Review

This melodramatic fable of emotional extremes is sharp and precise-nowhere more than in Fassbinder's attention to the price of domestic comforts and industrial necessities. Full Review

Rating: 3/4 -- Fassbinder gives an excellent performance as the abused Fox, and the direction is of his usual high standard. Full Review

Rating: 3/4 -- Here is a movie about characters who define themselves by their sexuality, but the movie doesn't. It takes the sexuality as a given, and defines them by their values and morals. Full Review

Rating: 2.5/4 -- the central relationship fits the dramatic requirements and dutifully fulfills its mission of acting as a microcosm for the insidious nature of social and economic manipulation, but it never feels real Full Review

Rating: 10/10 -- Brute beauty... quietly savage 1975 x-ray of the exploitation of a simple man... startles with its dense, concrete tapestry of trashy fairgrounds and garishly tasteless apartments and bolthole gay bars and swimming pools and horrifying exploitation. Full Review