3 Women Reviews

Insinuates itself into your skull, and earwig-like proceeds to consume all you thought you knew of ontological security

Full Review | Original Score: 78/100

3 Women is definitely a slow burn of a movie, but it's also amazing how well it taps into and visualizes the subconscious. Nothing is spelled out by Altman, who wants the audience to interpret the film's meaning for themselves.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Absorbing until it crashes in a tiresome manner trying to be too inexplicably symbolic.

Full Review | Original Score: B

The first half...is some of Altman's best stuff. The second half downgrades into rather pretentious and dithering malarkey

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Either a maddening essay in pointlessness, or a deeply involving work that leaves the viewer unnerved and off-balance. Which response occurs depends entirely on the viewer.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Like a dream, it is most mysterious and allusive when it appears to be most precise and direct, when its images are of the recognizable world unretouched (as happens in the film from time to time) by camera filters or lab technicians.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

An incisive portrait of psychological alienation.

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I have seen it many times, been through it twice in shot-by-shot analysis, and yet it always seems to be happening as I watch it. Recurring dreams are like that.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Fascinating, elliptical and enigmantic ... authentic Altman. Altman.

| Original Score: 5/5

[A] strange, beautiful and funny film.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

A spectacular artistic success.

Drawing similarities to the central relationship in Persona, Altman's impressionist work is difficult but, in its own way, sort of perfect.

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[Altman] pushed even harder against the envelope and in the process created a highly unusual and wholly original picture.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

3 Women is a daring piece of cinema that glides along the edge of weirdness and somehow manages not to fall off.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

The end result is a film far more reminiscent of Polanski than Altman and stands as one of his most underseen but most compelling works.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

3 Women is an intriguing film by Robert Altman that resides in the netherworld between dreaming and waking.

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It ranks in the pantheon of great films about dreams.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

A gauzy, perfectly executed vacation in Doppelgänger-burg.

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Robert Altman's would-be American art film (1977) is murky, snide, and sloppy.

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| Original Score: 4/5