sentences:  (They don’t even constitute enough of a movie market for Columbia Pictures to be concerned about how they are represented)".One reviewer writing for "World Film Directors" wrote, ""Midnight Express" is 'more violent, as a national hate-film than anything I can remember', 'a cultural form that narrows horizons, confirming the audience’s meanest fears and prejudices and resentments'".David Denby of "New York" criticized the film as "merely anti-Turkish, and hardly a defense of prisoners' rights or a protest against prison conditions".