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Janet Maslin, New York Times: The film is almost entirely adrift. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Streisand produced, developed the script, and composed most of the music for this showpiece, and her efforts, as usual, pay off, above all in her angry and lively performance. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Nuts is essentially just a futile exercise in courtroom cliches, surrounding a good performance that doesn't fit. Read more
Time Out: Streisand's a star, which means your complicity is on call at all times. In the shade, Dreyfuss is terrific, banking down his natural cockiness. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: It's Hollywood manipulation at its best. Read more
Rita Kempley, Washington Post: It wants to be a movie with a message, but in the end it's just a melodrama. Read more