April 13, 1973. Kidder also received an award for Best Actress at the Atlanta International Film Festival. Retrospective Critical reassessment of the film in the 21st century has largely been favorable, with critic Robin Wood writing in 2003 that Sisters was "one of the great American films of '70s," while G. Allen Johnson of the San Francisco Chronicle considers it a key film in Kidder's career. Richard Brody wrote of the film in The New Yorker in 2016: In 2016, Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times ranked the film as De Palma's most underrated of the 1970s, writing that "for all its low-budget creakiness, [it] feels fully formed—from its sly opening bit of misdirection to its adroit use of split-screen to its memorably churning Bernard Herrmann score. De Palma's choice of subject matter couldn't have been more appropriate: With this film he effectively conjoined himself to Hitchcock, announcing himself as a skillful mimic with a mischievous side all his own." Sisters currently has an 85% on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes from 47 reviews with the site's consensus reads, "Clever yet clearly indebted to the masters of the genre, Sisters offers an early glimpse of DePalma at his stylishly crafty peak". Home media Sisters was released on VHS and Betamax videocassettes by Warner Home Video in the 1980s, and again in 2000 by Homevision. The film was released on DVD by The Criterion Collection on October 3, 2000 in a new widescreen digital transfer. On July 16, 2018, Criterion announced a Blu-ray release of the film featuring a new 4K transfer scheduled for October 23, 2018. Remake The film was remade in 2006 under the same title, with Lou Doillon, Stephen Rea, and Chloë Sevigny in the leading roles. See also List of American films of 1973 References Notes Bibliography External links Sisters – an essay by Bruce Kerwin at The Criterion Collection 1972 films 1972 horror films 1972 independent films 1970s English-language films 1970s exploitation films 1970s horror thriller films 1970s psychological horror films 1970s psychological thriller films 1970s slasher films American exploitation films American horror thriller films American independent films American International Pictures films American neo-noir films American psychological horror films American psychological thriller films American slasher films Fictional conjoined twins Films about dissociative identity disorder Films about twin sisters Films directed by Brian De Palma Films scored by Bernard Herrmann Films set in New York City