Magic

Variety Staff

In adapting his own best seller, William Goldman has opted for an atmospheric thriller, a mood director Richard Attenborough fleshes out to its fullest. ( Read More )

Magic has few scary moments and is really a rather maudlin examination of a nervous breakdown. ( Read More )

Rory L. Aronsky

Because of Hopkins, because of Ann Margret (who hardly looks like that Ann Margret, adeptly proving herself as an occasional dramatic actress), and because of Burgess Meredith as well as Fats the dummy, Magic is one of the top notch films of the 1970s. ( Read More )

Derek Adams

A hammed up version of the old chestnut about the ventriloquist who is taken over by his dummy, clumsily adapted by William Goldman from his own novel. ( Read More )

Vincent Canby

Unless you resolutely make yourself stare at the theaters exit sign, its impossible not to see the wheels moving around inside this small, cumbersome movie. ( Read More )