Nothing enhances Altman's visual-aural density like the bustle of poker circles, race tracks, boxing rings
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09/05/09
California Split (1974)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:10
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.3/10
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Sold as a comedy, the film scans more like American-century Dostoyevsky, with comp cocktails.
03/25/08
Top CriticRobert Altman's masterful 1974 study of the psychology of the compulsive gambler.
03/25/08
Top CriticA film such as this, which is essentially a series of comic vignettes without a plot, depends upon its performances, and both Gould and Segal are in top form.
03/25/08
The film is technically and physically handsome, all the more so for being mostly location work, but lacks a cohesive and reinforced sense of story direction.
03/25/08
Top Critic...the big thing holding back American movies is that they aren't more like California Split.
11/19/06
Adding emphasis on the homo-ness of their lucrative bond are the repeated instances where the interference of women breaks both their concentration and their hot streaks.
10/08/06
Altman feels rather than thinks his way into a subject, with a special interest in how people relate to one another in moments of crisis.
02/09/06
A fascinating, vivid movie, not quite comparable to any other movie that I can immediately think of. Nor is it easily categorized.
05/09/05
Top Critiche two actors' inventive, improvized banter is a treat, and they are ably supported by Prentiss and Welles, both given room and encouragement to make their mark by the director.
11/13/04
What Altman comes up with is sometimes almost a documentary feel; at the end of California Split we know something about organized gambling in this country we didn't know before.
11/13/04
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