Minnie and Moskowitz
Universal Pictures | Release Date: December 22, 1971 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
3
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
This kind of casting can't help but give the movie an intimate, familiar feeling, and maybe that's why the comedy works as human comedy and not just manufactured laughs. Read full review
90
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
With MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ, Cassavetes took a break from the decidedly somber mood of FACES and HUSBANDS, and produced the most accessible, and endearing example of his very exceptional art. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
The wild L.A. romance of a museum curator and a parking lot attendant. [09 Jan 1998, p.C]
83
ColliderBrian Formo
Minnie and Moskowitz could easily be retitled as “Men Who Yell at Gena Rowlands About Why They Should Be an Item”. But with John Cassavetes script, the yelling is fun. Read full review
80
Time OutGeoff Andrew
An idiosyncratic romance, and a far lighter movie than is usual from Cassavetes. Detailing the problems that background and character bring to a relationship, he creates a captivatingly witty and sympathetic picture of a pair of misfits deciding to make a go of it together despite numerous incompatibilities and adversities. Read full review
70
The New YorkerRichard Brody
The sculptural physicality of the images, a 3-D explosion without glasses, embodies that violence while preserving the antagonists’ innocent grace; love smooths things out to a dreamy and reflective shine. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
It’s a funny film, and it’s even charming in a shaggy way, but there isn’t a light moment in it—Cassavetes demands that comedy be played as passionately as drama. Read full review
40
The New York TimesVincent Canby
Mr. Cassavetes's use of exaggerated slapstick gestures to underscore the loneliness and fears of his characters is more interesting in theory than funny or moving in actual fact. Read full review
40
The New YorkerPauline Kael
Cassavetes built this movie on a small conceit--a love affair between two people who are wildly unsuited to each other--and it doesn't work.
30
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel play the title roles in Minnie And Moskowitz, an oppressive and irritating film in which a shrill and numbing hysteria of acting and direction soon kills any empathy for the loneliness of the main characters. John Cassavetes wrote and directed in his now-familiar home-movie improvisational and indulgent style. Read full review
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