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Laura
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
4 June 1899, South Dakota, USA
October 10, 1902 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
April 14, 1917 in West Virginia, USA
27 July 1884, Clifton, Ontario, Canada
March 3, 1911 in Hancock County, Illinois, USA
November 23, 1898 in Sherman, Texas, USA
May 23, 1900 in Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA
October 25, 1876 in McConnelsville, Ohio, USA
7 December 1902, Chicago, Illinois, USA
May 31, 1894 in Redondo Beach, California, USA
February 25, 2012
Preminger made darker, more characteristically noir films than this, but his only movie that's as good, or perhaps better, is Anatomy of a Murder.
October 23, 2007
Less a crime film than a study in levels of obsession, Laura is one of those classic works that leave their subject matter behind and live on the strength of their seductive style.
February 23, 2012
Laura is still every bit as gripping in 2012.
February 12, 2016
Laura (1944) is elegance incarnate in a genre known for its hard edge, the sleekest, silkiest noir of all.
December 20, 2011
Few movies make you feel dirtier, and so perversely grateful for the pleasure.
July 15, 2013
A feverish trance wrapped in a deadpan investigation
October 23, 2007
A hypnotic and deathlessly interpretable experience.
March 21, 2013
Preminger deals in facades, with how perception cheats us, right down to the ideal image of Laura as a portrait. (Cinémathèque Annotations on Film)
April 20, 2009
A highly polished and debonair whodunit.
April 25, 2012
Masterpiece: with time, Preminger's second film has become richer in texture and deeper, more ambiguous in meaning than most noirs of the 1940s.
December 17, 2016
It's one of the smartest of all noirs, and thus among the most enticingly savage and dangerous.
February 23, 2012
Not only one of Preminger's greatest, but one of the great noirs.
