Carnal Knowledge
Embassy Pictures | Release Date: June 30, 1971 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
77
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Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
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4
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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60
The New YorkerPauline Kael
As Mike Nichols has directed the material, the effects are almost all achieved through the line readings, and the cleverness is unpleasant -- it's all surface and whacking emphasis.
50
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
The picture has its moments of chilling insight, though essentially it is one more quaint early-70s stab at an American art cinema that never materialized. Read full review
50
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowlede is a rather superficial and limited probe of American male sexual hypocrisies. Read full review
50
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
As a slice of familiar Feiffer cynicism, tracing the arid sex life of two contrasting males from eager college days to drained middle age, this was never quite the major assault on sexism and male chauvinism it set itself up to be. Read full review
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