Husbands Reviews
Top CriticJohn Cassavetes' Husbands is disappointing in the way Antonioni's Zabriskie Point was. It shows an important director not merely failing, but not even understanding why.
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| Original Score: 2/4
This 1970 film is John Cassavetes's most irritating, full of the male braggadocio and bluster that mar even some of his best work. But it's impossible to dismiss or shake off entirely.
Daily Telegraph
Unyielding and underdeveloped, like a semi-interesting draft for something John Updike decided against writing.
Q Network Film Desk
as a time capsule rendition of men being boys, it certainly has an inherent intrigue, but it is not one of Cassavetes' strongest films
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| Original Score: 2/4
It is almost unbearably long. It is a narrative film without any real narrative, and although it is a movie about three characters, those characters are seen almost exclusively in terms of their limiting relationship.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The List
Veers from the ridiculous to the sublime with little shilly-shallying in between.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Little White Lies
Husbands may not be structurally perfect, but it's an unsentimental dissection of ego, fear and masculinity nonetheless.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Few films capture with such life-affirming wonder the despair, hatred, and incomprehension that drives the sexes together and apart.
Filmcritic.com
Husbands is devoid of story but filled with a present-tense vitality and emotional honesty
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| Original Score: 5/5
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
An overlong improv piece that when it's not tedious or startling settles on showing the emptiness of suburban life for three married New York commuters.
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| Original Score: B
Turner Classic Movies Online
... a personal, provocative and uncompromising vision and a daring journey into the psyche of American men.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Most of Cassavetes's cinema verite films as a director are invariably accused (and with some justification) of being rambling, self-indulgent, and unfocused, but it is precisely those elements that make his best work so affecting and memorable.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Philadelphia Weekly
Cassavetes' most dangerous and unfiltered expression of masculine anxiety -- a raw, deliberately off-putting masterpiece.
