Catch-22
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: June 24, 1970 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The New York TimesVincent Canby
The most moving, the most intelligent, the most humane--oh, to hell with it!--it's the best American film I've seen this year. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyTroy Patterson
The director of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate is more at home with minute personal tensions than with the epic hysteria this project required, so file the film under botched masterpieces. Read full review
83
Tampa Bay TimesEric Atkins
Catch 22 will be remembered as a screamingly terrifying and funny interpretation of Joesph Heller's classic work. [27 July 1970, p.42]
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Nichols has done the same thing in Catch-22 that he did in The Graduate. He's given us a funny beginning, then switched tones and gone serious. And then tacked on a Great Escape ending which answers none of the questions he's so painfully raised. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
It's a flawed film, hampered by weird tonal shifts and an overpopulated cast. But, 31 years later, Catch-22's chilliness seems forgivable, its vision of a military (and a nation) ruled by gung-ho capitalists, shameless opportunists, and evil yes-men as prescient and incisive as ever. Read full review
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