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An important touchstone of the New Hollywood era, Five Easy Pieces is a haunting portrait of alienation that features one of Jack Nicholson's greatest performances.
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If the function of art is to help an audience feel less alone, then Five Easy Pieces succeeds beautifully. March 4, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
If the function of art is to help an audience feel less alone, then Five Easy Pieces succeeds beautifully.
Edward Guthmann
A very modern film. Elliptical, absurdist, harshly humorous, convulsively lyrical. November 18, 2017 | Full Review…
A very modern film. Elliptical, absurdist, harshly humorous, convulsively lyrical.
Andrew Sarris
The flaws of this acutely self-conscious 1970 road picture grow more obvious with every passing year, but so does its passion and eloquence. July 18, 2014
The flaws of this acutely self-conscious 1970 road picture grow more obvious with every passing year, but so does its passion and eloquence.
Michael Sragow
The movie has more anger than it knows what to do with; that's its fascination and its weakness, too. June 16, 2014
The movie has more anger than it knows what to do with; that's its fascination and its weakness, too.
David Denby
This superbly composed film comes as close to perfection as it gets. June 16, 2014 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
This superbly composed film comes as close to perfection as it gets.
Peter Bradshaw
The landscape photography of Lszl Kovcs is a minor marvel, while the sound design is an intelligent complement to the sonorities evoked in the film's title. June 16, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The landscape photography of Lszl Kovcs is a minor marvel, while the sound design is an intelligent complement to the sonorities evoked in the film's title.
Nicholson gives a galvanizing performance as a drifter who knows no tribe of his own, an updated anti-hero seething with self-loathing and discontent. April 19, 2019 | Full Review…
Nicholson gives a galvanizing performance as a drifter who knows no tribe of his own, an updated anti-hero seething with self-loathing and discontent.
Sean Burns
Gritty '70s drama about alienation has sex, cursing. October 4, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Gritty '70s drama about alienation has sex, cursing.
Barbara Shulgasser
A new kind of picture even for its era ... Jack Nicholson's performance still stands as one of his greatest. July 4, 2015 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
A new kind of picture even for its era ... Jack Nicholson's performance still stands as one of his greatest.
Matt Brunson
Director Bob Rafelson attempts something unusual here, making a film that's subtle about its meaning without ever ranging into the pretentiously oblique or merely ambiguous. July 1, 2015 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Director Bob Rafelson attempts something unusual here, making a film that's subtle about its meaning without ever ranging into the pretentiously oblique or merely ambiguous.
Noel Murray
A key turn-of-the-decade film, with Nicholson railing against waitresses and barking at noisy dogs as Rafelson observes seedily picturesque roadside America. June 16, 2014 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
A key turn-of-the-decade film, with Nicholson railing against waitresses and barking at noisy dogs as Rafelson observes seedily picturesque roadside America.
Kim Newman
The film, superbly directed by Rafelson, shifts the late 1960s hippy drop-out genre into the Ingmar Bergman class: it's cerebral, yes, but also moving and witty. June 16, 2014 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
The film, superbly directed by Rafelson, shifts the late 1960s hippy drop-out genre into the Ingmar Bergman class: it's cerebral, yes, but also moving and witty.
Adrian Turner
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