The Last Detail 1973

Vincent Canby, New York Times: The Last Detail is one superbly funny, uproariously intelligent performance, plus two others that are very, very good, which are so effectively surrounded by profound bleakness that it seems to be a new kind of anti-comedy. Read more

Don Druker, Chicago Reader: A tough-talking, sparely directed effort by Hal Ashby, with an immaculate performance by Jack Nicholson. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: One can't help feeling that the criticism of modern America hits out at all too easy targets in a vague and muffled manner. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Nicholson's cigar-chomping, profanity-spouting grunt is one of the greatest incarnations of stunted machismo onscreen, and he's brilliantly complemented by Quaid's picture-perfect awkwardness and Young's bracing cynicism. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Salty, bawdy, hilarious and very touching. Read more