"ONE OF HAMER’S MASTERPIECES… It starts out with a typical film noir situation: a woman helps an escaped convict who was once her lover. But Hamer demolishes this plot, transforming it into A BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN CHORAL WORK in which the destinies of a multitude of characters crisscross."
– Bertrand Tavernier, Film Comment

"ONE OF THE UNDERRATED GEMS OF POST-WWII BRITISH FILM… Hamer's direction and Douglas Slocombe’s glistening camerawork are every bit as skilled as those you’d find in the works of Robert Siodmak, Anthony Mann or any of the great noir directors in Hollywood."
– George Robinson, The Jewish Week 

"You could call the secret loves in It Always Rains On Sunday noirish, yet the passion and torments of its women are grounded in an East End locale that feels kitchen-sink-real… Frank and bracing in ways that we’re not used to seeing in a movie from this period, marking a very worthy rerelease by Rialto."
– Nicolas Rapold, The L Magazine

“That this slice-of-life melodrama collides with a fugitive-on-the-run thriller makes "Sunday” a most notable installment of 1940s British cinema. But it's when things go from gray to pitch black in the film's final moments, building to a climax that links the anguish of a prison inmate with the daily routine of a working-class wife, that "Sunday'" delivers an existential wallop for the ages”.
– S. James Snyder, The New York Sun
 
"A fascinating noirish look at life in London’s East End… the scenes between Withers and McCallum are stunningly erotic, and the movie ends with a spectacular chase through the London streets and rail yards. It was shot by Douglas Slocombe, whose use of lighting deep within the frame may prefigure Robert Krasker’s work in The Third Man."
– David Denby, The New Yorker

 "ABSOLUTELY EXHILARATING! A bleak thriller realized with utter vibrancy, Robert Hamer’s savory stew of London’s lower class roils with an emotional brutality and precision that most films don’t dare attempt, let alone achieve. Dense and compact, melodramatic but never maudlin."
– Stephen Garrett, Time Out New York
 
"A MASTERPIECE of dead ends and might-have-beens, highly inventive in its use of flashbacks and multiple overlapping narratives, and brilliantly acted by Withers and McCallum… a sprawling, Altmanesque tapestry of East End life… Hamer might have been one of the major figures in modern British cinema. As things stand, It Always Rains on Sunday is a major work, badly in need of rediscovery." 
– Scott Foundas, The Village Voice