Ernest Borgnine delivers a masterful portrayal off a lonely and self-doubting bachelor, whose quest for happiness becomes an endearing exploration.

| Jun 14, 2023

Ironically enough, this film, whose intention is clearly to provide insights into a social milieu and its problems, actually encourages an unquestioning conformity in the public through the innocuousness of its presentation.

| Aug 2, 2022

What makes this rare is that it is realistic without being sordid. It records with honest eye, ear and heart a few simple people in their own simple setting and finds life wonderful.

| Aug 2, 2022

You have to have considerable tolerance to make it through Chayefsky's repetitive dialogue, his insistence on the humanity of "little" people, and his attempt to create poetry out of humble, drab conversations.

| Jul 28, 2022

Classic Paddy Chayefsky script and a charming and interesting examination of people who don't normally get movies devoted to them.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 24, 2022

A sweet and simple love story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 24, 2022

Marty is an all-around masterpiece thanks to its script and performances.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 19, 2022

Marty is a small but splendid sample of that richness and variety in American life which has been waiting all too long to be filmed and televised.

| Feb 10, 2022

Marty will give you a heartening slice of life, full of honesty and humor.

| Oct 18, 2021

The wealth of observed detail about life in the Bronx (the film's locale and also where it was made) conveys a vibrant and unmistakable ring of truth.

| Oct 18, 2021

Wonderfully warm and funny and sympathetic.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 18, 2021

Everything you've heard about Marty is true. It's a fine movie. It establishes its author, Paddy Chayefsky... as one of the country's foremost dramatic writers. And the performances by Ernest Borgnine [and Betsy Blair] are superb.

| Oct 18, 2021

Marty is one of those films that appear every few years or so -- a picture so sensitively acted, so tenderly written, so human in its appeal, that it has the utmost distinction, no matter what kind of audience is in the theatre.

| Oct 18, 2021

The picture is the ideal homespun type of creation for this era.

| Oct 18, 2021

This slice of life is heartening becau.se of its humanity; utter honesty doesn't have to be depressing.

| Oct 18, 2021

Under Delbert Mann's direction, these familiar movie land marks burst suddenly into moving and unfamiliar life.

| Oct 18, 2021

This little movie is a masterpiece which confines itself to the small world of the small man, and in doing so makes its real stature tower above most films.

| Oct 18, 2021

After viewing Marty at an advance screening, it seems rather useless to go on with this year's Academy Award race. Who but Ernest Borgnine... could be the best actor of the year?

| Oct 18, 2021

That most difficult task of irradiating the commonplace, and finding tensions in it without ever manufacturing false drama, has been adroitly achieved.

| Oct 18, 2021

This is probably one of the best American film that has been produced. It has all the simplicity of the immediate post-war Italian pictures combined with a truly touching and human theme.

| Oct 18, 2021