Husbands 1970

Critics score:
71 / 100

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Vincent Canby, New York Times: 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. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: 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. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Few films capture with such life-affirming wonder the despair, hatred, and incomprehension that drives the sexes together and apart. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: John 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. Read more

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