RyothChatty ridiculous rating

pointyfilippa The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

jordanpeabody Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd. is one of the better-known films from the golden age of cinema and one can see why. Featuring a fantastic screenplay, great pacing and some great performances this film is rightly considered a classic of film noir. William Holden plays an unsuccessful screenwriter who chances upon a mansion owned by silent screen siren Norma Desmond. She persuades him to stay and write a screenplay a comeback screenplay for her which he agrees to, lured first by the money and then just the bizzarity of the situation. However, he soon realizes that it was a wrong decision, but he is stuck. This is a witty dark comedy(literally) featuring some evocative scenes courtesy the cinematography.

johnmichaelwuimdb This movie deserves all of its fame. It is the creepiest movie I've seen in recent memory, but not in the usual way. In fact, it is a perfectly believable story about perfectly believable people -- no supernatural stuff. And yet, man, what a draining film.I could go on and on, but I'll keep my review covering just the most salient points. Perhaps the most important of these is that the movie explores the concept of wealth combined with loneliness better than any other I've seen to date. Norma's desperate cries, the large house they live in, the strange things that seem to always be happening; I think whenever I think of the combination of wealth and loneliness again in the future, Norma Desmond is the character I will have in my mind. This is one of the great movies about Hollywood. Even if you're not interested in that stuff though, you'll still find something to your liking here. Just watch it.

Ivan Lalic When you combine Billy Wilder behind and Gloria Swanson and William Holden in front of the camera you can not get a mediocre result. Semi-autobiographical story about the fallen star of silent movies that struggles to catch up with the moving industry perplexed with a love story and a crime mystery, you get a really decent movie with some dramatic depth. On the other hand, the praise it received were mainly due to the moment it appeared, thus being really up to date with its display of the changing cinematography. "Sunset Boulevard" is a good ol' school drama, but with a somewhat obsolete subject

Matt Greene Sunset Blvd. is a capital D Dark comedy, perfectly walking the line between extremely unsettling & absurdly hilarious (dead ape). The writing is among the best of its kind; flowery & full of noir-heavy tropes that sit within the genre while standing above it. Swanson is of course undeniable, but Holden shouldn't be forgotten, playing the line between Stockholm syndrome & sly suspension skillfully and coolly. A better film than Demille could ever make.