“One of the great movies of the 1960s… In spite of its bitter edge, BILLY LIAR is pure Ambrosia.”
– A.O. Scott, The New York Times
“COURTENAY’S GREATEST PERFORMANCE… He balances testiness and frustration, levity and rage, and never soft-pedals his character’s more unsympathetic tendencies.”
– Ryan Gilbey, New Statesman
“Quick-fire satire… Funny and unexpectedly poignant.”
– Dave Calhoun, Time Out (London)
“Christie’s entrance is one of the most beguiling things in ’60s cinema: a long fugue in which wanders gaily through the streets of a Northern town, swinging a large handbag. The sequence owes something to the nouvelle vague, and as that was a liberating movement, so is she a liberating spirit.”
– David Shipman, The Great Movie Stars