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Escape from New York grossed $ 25. 2 million in American theaters in summer 1981 with a comparable gross in the international market, resulting in a $ 50 million box office, a revenue-production ratio of almost 7: 1.

The film received generally positive reviews.

As of December 2011, it has a rating of 83 % on Rotten Tomatoes.

Newsweek magazine commented on Carpenter, saying, " has a deeply ingrained B-movie sensibility-which is both his strength and limitation.

He does clean work, but settles for too little.

He uses Russell well, however.

" In Time magazine, Richard Corliss wrote, " John Carpenter is offering this summer's moviegoers a rare opportunity: to escape from the air-conditioned torpor of ordinary entertainment into the hothouse humidity of their own paranoia.

It's a trip worth taking.

" Vincent Canby, in his review for the New York Times, wrote, " film is not to be analyzed too solemnly, though.

It's a toughly told, very tall tale, one of the best escape ( and escapist ) movies of the season.

" However, in his review for the Chicago Reader, Dave Kehr, wrote " it fails to satisfy – it gives us too little of too much.