In a Lonely Place
Critic Ed Gonzalez wrote in 2001, "Not unlike Albert Camus' "The Stranger", Nicholas Ray's remarkable "In a Lonely Place" represents the purest of existentialist primers ... Gray and Dixon may love each other but it's evident that they're both entirely too victimized by their own selves to sustain this kind of happiness. In the end, their love resembles a rehearsal for the next and hopefully less complicated romance. This is the existential endgame of one of Ray's smartest and most devastating masterpieces."