The Lady from Shanghai
Among retrospective reviews, "Time Out Film Guide" states that Welles simply didn't care enough to make the narrative seamless: "the principal pleasure of "The Lady from Shanghai" is its tongue-in-cheek approach to story-telling." One recent book on film noir praises the film for its pervasive atmosphere of malaise and its impressive, extraordinary technical mastery. David Kehr has subsequently declared the film as a masterpiece, with him calling it "the weirdest great movie ever made."