The Heartbreak Kid 1972

Vincent Canby, New York Times: A first-class American comedy, as startling in its way as was The Graduate. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: [May] captures the implausibly boundless sense of wonder, possibility, and entitlement of a time when even a self-proclaimed schmuck like Len Cantrow, endowed with little but the gift of gab, attempted daring feats of self-liberation. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid was directed with a sure feeling for how comedy can edge over into satire and then tragedy. Read more

Time Out: Wittily directed by May, and neatly scripted by Neil Simon. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Elaine May's deft direction catches all the possibilities of young romance and its tribulations in light strokes and cleverly accents characterization of the various principals. Read more