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The Long Goodbye

1973

Robert Altman

Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt, Mark Rydell ...

6.8

3,349

Mystery. Drama. Thriller. Film noir Private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is certain that his friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton) isn't a wife-killer, even after the cops throw Marlowe in jail for not cooperating with their investigation into Lennox's subsequent disappearance. Once he gets out of jail, Marlowe starts to conduct his own search when he discovers that mysterious blonde Eileen Wade (Nina Van Pallandt), who hired him to find her alcoholic novelist husband ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Most of its effect comes from the way it pushes against the genre, and the way Altman undermines the premise of all private eye movies (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"A masterpiece of sorts, it digs beneath the surface of the supposedly liberated spirit of the times to expose the ethos that took America into the Vietnam war and produced Watergate"	POS
United States	Terrence Rafferty The New York Times	"The movie manages to stylize an absence of style, the bland fluidity of early '70s Southern California, the very thing that makes Marlowe obsolete"	POS
United States	Alan R. Howard The Hollywood Reporter	"A gloriously inspired tribute to Hollywood that never loses sight of what Los Angeles has become"	POS
United States	Variety	"An uneven mixture of insider satire on the gumshow film genre, gratuitous brutality, and sledgehammer whimsy."	NEU
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"A subtle criqiue of the main character that contains some astonishing set pieces (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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