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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis 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.
- 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.
- 88Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonThe wild L.A. romance of a museum curator and a parking lot attendant. [09 Jan 1998, p.C]
- 83ColliderBrian FormoColliderBrian FormoMinnie 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.
- 80Time OutGeoff AndrewTime OutGeoff AndrewAn 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.
- 70The New YorkerRichard BrodyThe New YorkerRichard BrodyThe 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.
- 60Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrIt’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.
- 40The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyMr. 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.
- 40The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelCassavetes 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.
- 30Gena 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.