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Fernando F. Croce, film critic for Slant magazine, liked the film and wrote, " Perched between late -' 40s noir and mid -' 50s crime drama, this is one of the great, forgotten works of the genre ... Easily mushy, the material achieves a nearly transcendental beauty in the hands of Ray, a poet of anguished expression: The urban harshness of the city is contrasted with the austere snowy countryside for some of the most disconcertingly moving effects in all film noir.

Despite the violence and the steady intensity, a remarkably pure film.