Five Easy Pieces

If the function of art is to help an audience feel less alone, then Five Easy Pieces succeeds beautifully.

A very modern film. Elliptical, absurdist, harshly humorous, convulsively lyrical.

Director Bob Rafelson attempts something unusual here, making a film that's subtle about its meaning without ever ranging into the pretentiously oblique or merely ambiguous.

The flaws of this acutely self-conscious 1970 road picture grow more obvious with every passing year, but so does its passion and eloquence.

The movie has more anger than it knows what to do with; that's its fascination and its weakness, too.

This superbly composed film comes as close to perfection as it gets.

Jack Nicholson delivers one of this best performances in James Foley's simplistic, yet powerful and effective character study. A key example of the American New wave. [Full review in Spanish]

If 'Easy Rider' is the epitaph for the sixties, 'Five Easy Pieces' ushers in the silver age of personal filmmaking in the seventies. It’s a silent scream of alienation and narcissism with a revelatory performance by Nicholson...

A moody study on alienation, class status and dropping-out.

It was Five Easy Pieces that proved (Jack Nicholson) to be a performer of considerable depth and emotion.