Drive, He Said 1971

Vincent Canby, New York Times: All of the film's characters, and all of the performances, are touched with the kind of unexpected sensibility and decency that are rare in most films of this genre. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Jack Nicholson's first venture into direction is very much a film of its time. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A disorganized but occasionally brilliant movie about two college students and the world they, and we, inhabit. Read more

Time Out: No way can it be said to work, despite the cast's cultish distinction, but it still knocks most of its quasi-radical contemporaries sideways as an index of doomed '60s/'70s causes and confusions. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Nicholson deftly illustrates the background cynicism of big time sports against the more obvious cynicism of college life. Read more