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4 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75The Associated PressBob ThomasThe Associated PressBob ThomasThe solution is a bit pat and anticlimactic, but it is heartening to find a movie that concerns itself with real and present social issues. [21 Oct 1982]
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineWoods is particularly good as the deprogrammer, conveying an air of moral tackiness that suggests the "cure" may be worse than the perceived disorder.
- 60NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenPart satire, part love story and, in its lurid deprogramming scenes, pure horror story. Not everything jells, and one never fully believes the hero's transformation from skepticism to subservience. Yet Kotcheff has again delivered a compelling entertainment and one savvy enough to raise more questions than it answers. [25 Oct 1982, p.119]
- 50The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinThe shrill, melodramatic quality of the film's final sections, so unlike its calmly controlled beginning, suggests that no one connected with Split Image really knew which way this story was heading.