"In more ways than one, the film belongs to Welles. His performance as the obese, game-legged, ex-alcoholic Quinlan, generally shot from below to accentuate his distended proportions, is as much a tour de force as his direction. As some critics have noted, the sweaty, oppressive physicality of the character comes to personify the film's decadent style."
In the Los Angeles Times, Dennis Lim considers Touch of Evil on the movie's fiftieth anniversary.
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