The Iceman Cometh 1973

Critics score:
88 / 100

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Nora Sayre, New York Times: The play is an inescapably great experience, and that fact isn't muffled by this film. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: A stiff in spite of an interesting cast. Read more

Pauline Kael, New Yorker: Eugene O'Neill's great, heavy, simplistic, mechanical, beautiful play has been given a straightforward, faithful production in handsome, dark-toned color. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: For four hours we live in these two rooms and discover the secrets of these people, and at the end we have gone deeper, seen more, and will remember more, than with most of the other movies of our life. Read more

Michael Feingold, Village Voice: We see a fairly dazzling array of performances, built by Frankenheimer cunningly and steadily. Read more