Editing Threads (1984 film) (section)

===Contemporary===

''Threads'' was not widely reviewed,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jackson |first=Mick; David Gregory; Kier-La Janisse |date=March 10, 2023 |title=Threads DVD Audio Commentary Full Movie |url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx6lOi78a1A&pp=ygUZVGhyZWFkcyBhdWRpbyBjb21tZW50YXJ5IA%3D%3D |website=YouTube}}</ref> but the critics who reviewed it gave generally positive reviews.<ref name=rt>{{rotten-tomatoes|threads|Threads}}</ref> John J. O'Connor of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote that the film "is not a balanced discussion about the pros and cons of nuclear armaments. It is a candidly biased warning. And it is, as calculated, unsettlingly powerful."<ref>{{cite news| url= https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/12/arts/tv-years-after-nuclear-holocaust.html| title= TV: Years After Nuclear Holocaust| work= The New York Times| first= John J. | last= O'Connor| date= 12 January 1985| page= 42| access-date= October 11, 2023}}</ref> Rick Groen of ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' wrote that "[t]he British crew here, headed by writer Barry Hines and producer/director Mick Jackson, accomplish what would seem to be an impossible task: depicting the carnage without distancing the viewer, without once letting him retreat behind the safe wall of fictitious play. Formidable and foreboding, Threads leaves nothing to our imagination, and Nothingness to our conscience."<ref>''The Globe and Mail'', 2 March 1985.</ref> In his [[Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide|movie guide]], [[Leonard Maltin]] gave the film a rating of three stars (out of a possible four). He called ''Threads'' "Britain's answer to ''[[The Day After]]''" and wrote that the film was "unrelentingly graphic and grim, sobering, and shattering- as it should be".<ref>{{Cite book|title=Leonard Maltin's 2007 Movie Guide|last=Maltin|first=Leonard|publisher=Signet|year=2006|isbn=0-451-21916-3|location=USA|pages=[https://archive.org/details/leonardmaltins2000malt/page/1348 1348]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/leonardmaltins2000malt/page/1348}}</ref>