Jack Nicholson shines in the film that helped cement his reputation as one of the finest actors of his generation.
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07/26/07
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:22
Rotten:5
Average Rating:8.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: FIVE EASY PIECES is one of the most notable collaborations between Jack Nicholson and director Bob Rafelson, with Nicholson in an outstanding performance as Bobby Dupea. In the film, Rafelson and... [More]
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Sally Struthers
Director: Bob Rafelson
Reviews for Five Easy Pieces
Top CriticThe result is less a story and more a collection of incidents and character studies, all of which inform each other and extend our understanding of Nicholson's mode of survival: flight.
01/26/06
Top CriticI expected a lot more from this film. It's basically a rambling boredom piece.
04/30/03
The film embraces proletarian chic but still gets its laughs by abusing waitresses.
07/26/07
Perhaps the most overrated of the early ’70s masterpieces.
08/30/02
Critics praise the film's daring, lavishing it with undeserved attention even now, thirty years after it was released.
02/28/02
Rafelson is expert at supporting this movement, and the film proceeds from scene to scene with a quiet competent modernism that bespeaks quality, but that more often begs than provides expression.
05/21/03
Top CriticThis episodic character study is one of the key American films of its era.
07/26/07
Top CriticNo review available.
01/12/04
Nicholson at his angry, young man peak. Cynical, anti-authoritarian drama.
03/21/03
No review available.
10/03/03
No review available.
09/27/05
No review available.
04/06/06
No review available.
07/26/02
A key American film of its era, Bob Rafelson's moody, character-driven tale of an upper-middle class dropout established Jack Nicholson as the foremost actor of his generation in articulating the values of the new generation.
02/26/08
It hasn't aged as well as some of its 1970s counterparts, but it's still a heartbreaking film and a minor classic.
06/21/04
It often seems endless in the possibilities of its human observation.
06/09/02
A fascinating character study.
09/10/02
No review available.
11/22/03
No review available.
09/23/05
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