They’re both good and important in the genre, its subjective on taste.

I’m not discrediting it or anything but I think In a Lonely Place is a better noir film.

Double indemnity is considered one of if not the best film noir that was made, that’s not my opinion but a majority of the opinion of film noir books and scholars on the genre.

I remember making time to see Safe on its limited run in my city when it was released in 1995. I had admired Todd Haynes’ previous film Poison which ran as part of my city’s 1991 film festival, admired it so much that I hunted down a poor-quality VHS recording of Haynes’ short film Superstar, which did not disappoint, even in what looked to be an eighth-generation dub. After viewing Safe, however, I felt that my interests would have been better-served if I’d have used that same time reading individual case histories of environmental disease. I expect more out of cinema as art, particularly from a director whose work I admire, than the inclination to bypass the cinematic experience in favor of reading reports on the subject.