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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Body Heat is good enough to make film noir play like we hadn't seen it before. Read full review

  • 88
    TV Guide |

    An excellent crime drama in the style of Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, and Dashiell Hammett. Read full review

  • 83
    The Onion A.V. Club |

    Kasdan's moody tribute to cinema's dark past set a gold standard for neo-noirs that has seldom been equaled. Read full review

  • 80
    Empire |

    Still regarded as one of the steamiest movie's of all time, Body Heat is a fantastic exponenet of how noir has developed. Read full review

  • 80
    Chicago Reader | Dave Kehr

    Lawrence Kasdan's 1981 noir fable is highly derivative in its overall conception, but it finds some freshness in its details. All in all, this evokes the spirit of James M. Cain more effectively than the 1981 remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice did. Read full review

  • 80
    Film Threat |

    Aside from the over abundance of rather large glasses and sweaty actors, Body Heat succeeds fabulously, not only as an excellent example of a classic film noir but as a solidly executed production in its own right. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Janet Maslin

    While Body Heat involves murder, fraud, a weak hero led astray and a seductive, double-dealing broad, it also incorporates something new: a sexual explicitness that the old films could only hint at. Read full review

  • 80
    Time | Richard Corliss

    Body Heat is full of meaty characters and pungent performances...a film to be seen at a drive-in, on a heavy summer night, with someone you trust. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe |

    Lawrence Kasdan's Body Heat--an homage to film noir--gets off to a nice start before it becomes entangled in its convoluted and somewhat uninteresting plot machinations. Read full review

  • 50
    The Globe and Mail (Toronto) | Jay Scott

    Hurt is so good at capturing the charming and chilling Ned that he almost makes up for the film's two primary weaknesses: Kasdan's inexperience and a message of significant unpleasantness. [28 Aug 1981, p.P17] Read full review

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