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California Split has never been heralded as one of the key Altmans. But the few things it does - friendship and disappointment and the drab and desperate thrill of the gambler's life - it does superbly. Dec 9, 2014 | Full Review…
California Split has never been heralded as one of the key Altmans. But the few things it does - friendship and disappointment and the drab and desperate thrill of the gambler's life - it does superbly.
Alan Scherstuhl
Sold as a comedy, the film scans more like American-century Dostoyevsky, with comp cocktails. Mar 25, 2008
Sold as a comedy, the film scans more like American-century Dostoyevsky, with comp cocktails.
Michael Atkinson
Robert Altman's masterful 1974 study of the psychology of the compulsive gambler. Mar 25, 2008 | Full Review…
Robert Altman's masterful 1974 study of the psychology of the compulsive gambler.
Don Druker
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. Mar 25, 2008 | Full Review…
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.
Variety Staff
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. Feb 9, 2006
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.
Joshua Rothkopf
A fascinating, vivid movie, not quite comparable to any other movie that I can immediately think of. Nor is it easily categorized. May 9, 2005 | Rating: 4/5
A fascinating, vivid movie, not quite comparable to any other movie that I can immediately think of. Nor is it easily categorized.
Vincent Canby
The Odd Couple of poker films May 3, 2013 | Rating: 76/100 | Full Review…
The Odd Couple of poker films
Dan Jardine
Funny as hell. Jan 12, 2013 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
Funny as hell.
Dennis Schwartz
Nothing enhances Altman's visual-aural density like the bustle of poker circles, race tracks, boxing rings Sep 5, 2009 | Full Review…
Nothing enhances Altman's visual-aural density like the bustle of poker circles, race tracks, boxing rings
Fernando F. Croce
A 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. Mar 25, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A 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.
...the big thing holding back American movies is that they aren't more like California Split. Nov 19, 2006 | Full Review…
...the big thing holding back American movies is that they aren't more like California Split.
Tom Block
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. Oct 8, 2006 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
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.
Eric Henderson
Altman's hilarious look at compulsive gambling is perhaps his most underrated film.
Super Reviewer
An amusing and completely uncategorizable film that captures the mood of its period, an atmosphere long gone by now where the low life and unstable compulsive gamblers round up looking for little green papers to pass through the week or more hopefully to heal their wounds. As some other works by its director, it feels over talky, anarchic, scattered, erratic, but he always gets the best out of his cast, giving them time to improvise and take it to the wildest, in the case of Elliot Gould. He and George Segal were perfect for the job, the chemistry is real, un rehearsed. Although the story doesn't take much chances, the reliance on its actors' charm is what makes it quite enjoyable.
a stellar tragicomic buddy film about compulsive gamblers. extremely natural, even by altman standards. elliott gould at his manic peak
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