Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: October 19, 1977 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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NewsweekJack Kroll
Looking for Mr. Goodbar could have been just another sensationalist movie version of a shocking best seller. But Richard Brooks has filmed it with power, seriousness and integrity. [24 Oct 1977, p.126]
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Molly Haskell
This is far and away Richard Brooks's best film. It is harrowing, powerful, appalling. [31 Oct 1977, p.116]
80
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
In Looking for Mr Goodbar, writer-director Richard Brooks manifests his ability to catch accurately both the tone and subtlety of characters in the most repellant environments - in this case the desperate search for personal identity in the dreary and self-defeating world of compulsive sex and dope. Diane Keaton's performance as the good/bad girl is excellent. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The performance and the character are fully realized, even in this movie that finds room for so many loose ends and dead ends. Read full review
70
Village VoiceMelissa Anderson
What makes the film — which Richard Brooks directed and scripted, adapting Judith Rossner’s bestselling 1975 novel of the same name — so fascinating and repellent at once is precisely the confusion and anxiety it articulates about women’s sexual freedom. Read full review
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