Eyes of Laura Mars

Name: Eyes of Laura Mars
Director: Irvin Kershner
Released: 1978

Synopsis

A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a serial killer.

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Slickly-made parapsychological murder mystery featuring a solid performance by Faye Dunaway as a fashion photographer who sees murders in her mind's eye. [06 Sep 1978]
70
Variety
Eyes of Laura Mars is a very stylish thriller [from a story by John Carpenter] in search of a better ending.
70
The New York Times
It's the cleverness of Eyes of Laura Mars that counts, cleverness that manifests itself in superlative casting, drily controlled direction from Irvin Kershner, and spectacular settings that turn New York into the kind of eerie, lavish dreamland that could exist only in the idle noodlings of the very, very hip.
70
The New Yorker
Directed by Irvin Kershner, the film has a few shocking fast cuts, but it also has scabrous elegance and a surprising amount of humor.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
This movie borders on the ridiculous, but is pulled back by an aesthetic portrayal of the supernatural and by its stars.
40
TV Guide Magazine
Parts of the film are nasty enough to grip the audience, but a large portion is muddled and sometimes laughably pretentious.
40
Empire
Too glossy to evoke real sexual tension or, more crucially in this genre, fear, Laura Mars suffers from the over complication of something so simple as serial killing.
40
Newsweek
Almost perversely, Laura Mars breaks the easiest of movie promises: here is a movie about the Beautiful People that hasn't bothered to make them beautiful. [14 Aug 1979, p.62]