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Catch-22

1970

Mike Nichols

Alan Arkin, Orson Welles, Jon Voight, Anthony Perkins ...

6.2

883

War. Drama A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a "military mentality" and of a bureaucratic society in general.

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Quite simply, the best American film I've seen this year (...) On every level except, maybe, that of ridiculous extravagance (...) 'Catch-22' is an achievement."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"A disappointment, and not simply because it fails to do justice to the Heller novel. That was almost inevitable, I guess (...) I thought perhaps Nichols would pull off something."	NEG
United States	John Mahoney The Hollywood Reporter	"Cynical and bitterly cold (...) [Mike] Nichols and [Buck] Henry fail to make an anti-capitalist film. They have made their case so strong that it becomes an anti-human film."	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Though the vertiginously absurdist logic of the book is hopelessly fractured, some of it does filter through (the mostly superb performances are a great help)."	NEU

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