Nashville 1975

Vincent Canby, New York Times: It's a film that a lot of other directors will wish they'd had the brilliance to make. Read more

Don Druker, Chicago Reader: A rare and puzzling movie: beautiful and cruel, passionate but strangely shallow. Read more

Arthur Knight, Hollywood Reporter: Certainly, for the American cinema, it is the most epochal event since Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. Read more

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Richard Brody, New Yorker: The funniest epic vision of America ever to reach the screen. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The acting is entirely unaffected. Every performance rings true, whether from an experienced actor or a neophyte. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: More than anything else, it is a tender poem to the wounded and the sad. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: A masterpiece. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Nashville is one of Altman's best films, free of the rambling insider fooling around that sometimes mars entire chunks of every second or third picture. Read more

Molly Haskell, Village Voice: I think that the power and the theme of the film lie in the fact that while some characters are more "major" than others, they are all subordinated to the music itself. It's like a river, running through the film, running through their life. Read more