★★★½ “Reason to get lost in the outback in ‘Wake in Fright,’” by Ty Burr, The Boston Globe

★★★½ ”Kotcheff’s masterpiece (he later did First Blood), it orchestrates landscape, music, demonic faces, and lots of blood, sweat, and vomit into a stark bacchanalia of men having fun.” —Peter Keough, The Phoenix