|
| United Artists | Release Date: December 1, 1974 |
Starring:
Dustin Hoffman, Frankie Man, Gary Morton, Guy Rennie, Jan Miner, Kathryn Witt, Michele Yonge, Rashel Novikoff, Stanley Beck, Valerie Perrine
Summary:
The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public.
Watch Now
| Buy on |
|
| Stream On |
|
| Stream On |
|
| Stream On |
|
| Stream On |
|
One-fourth of the film is so brilliant—and so brilliantly acted by Dustin Hoffman—that it helps cool one's impatience with the rest of the film, which is much more fancily edited and photographed but no more profound than those old movie biographies Jack L. Warner used to grind out about people like George Gershwin, Mark Twain and Dr. Ehrlich.
Read full review
The monochrome photography and pseudo-documentary interpolations can't disguise the basic Harold Robbins material, and the good performances (Hoffman and Perrine) stand little chance against Fosse's withering direction: the subject matter needs far defter psychological handling than it gets.
Read full review
More From Metacritic
Current Movie Releases
By MetascoreBy User Score
