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Carnal Knowledge
Directed by
Mike Nichols
R
1971
1h 38m
Drama
,
Romance
,
and more
6.9
89%
72%
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Chronicling the romantic relationships of two men who meet and become friends in college.
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Cast of Carnal Knowledge
Jack Nicholson
Jonathan
Candice Bergen
Susan
Art Garfunkel
Sandy
Ann-Margret
Bobbie
Rita Moreno
Louise
Cynthia O'Neal
Cindy
Carol Kane
Jennifer
Colleen Murphy
Mama
Mike Nichols
Director / Producer
Jules Feiffer
Writer
Carnal Knowledge Ratings & Reviews
Slant Magazine
Derek Smith
Mike Nichols's divisive fourth feature is a fascinating cultural artifact.
FandomWire
Joshua Ryan
Nichols, holding the rare honor of the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony winner), excels at bringing the best out of his performers.
The Contending
Frank J. Avella
Feiffer has a way of capturing men and their inflated egos-that competitive nature-but also the disgusting way they see women, in such an honest manner that it's often painful to watch.
Chicago Daily News
David Elliott
[Jules Feiffer and Mike Nichols] have made a film that is hard but not cynical, clever but not superficial and, as movies go, quite important.
Rob's Movie Vault
Rob Gonsalves
Some of the scenes are so emotionally harsh as to provoke gasps.
Easy Reader (California)
Neely Swanson
Brilliantly directed, Nichols focused on closeups to reveal character, aided enormously by Feiffer's incisive dialogue and story.
National Review
Kyle Smith
Carnal Knowledge may be an acid bath, but it strips a certain kind of man right down to the bone.
Newsweek
Paul D. Zimmerman
Nichols has broken thoroughly now with his stage beginnings, integrating camera and action easily, using space and silence with the fluency of a man at home behind a lens.
Common Sense Media
Barbara Shulgasser
Frank '70s coming-of-age tale has lots of sex, profanity.
Turner Classic Movies Online
Sean Axmaker
... an acerbic and, in many ways, dispiriting portrait of masculinity and male sexuality in the post-World War II culture.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A pretentious and uneven provocative moralistic adult drama about coping with the "sexual revolution" among the middle-class males.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Ah, the sweet smell of '70s American cinema when anything was possible.
Variety
Variety Staff
A rather superficial and limited probe of American male sexual hypocrisies.
TV Guide
Deeply felt critique of middle-class sexual politics, and one of the better films of formerly interesting director Mike Nichols.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
The picture has its moments of chilling insight, though essentially it is one more quaint early-70s stab at an American art cinema that never materialized.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Misunderstood by critics and viewers, Nichols' satire of male chauvinism is by turns witty, provocative, funny, and depressing. The film was so controversial in 1971 that it went all the way to the Supreme Court for obscenity charges.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Stays within the universe of its characters, and inhabits it totally. And within that universe, men and woman fail to find sexual and personal happiness because they can't break through their patterns of treating each other as objects.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
In addition to being the toughest comedy since Little Murders, and the most imaginative comedy since Catch 22, Carnal Knowledge represents a nearly ideal collaboration of directorial and writing talents.
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