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In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
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100
Body Heat is good enough to make film noir play like we hadn't seen it before.
88
An excellent crime drama in the style of Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, and Dashiell Hammett.
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The A.V. Club
Kasdan's moody tribute to cinema's dark past set a gold standard for neo-noirs that has seldom been equaled.
80
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.
80
The New York Times
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.
