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

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

| 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

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

Paddy Chayefsky, who wrote the script, has captured the human element deftly. Here are human beings as they really are, refreshingly lifelike, piteously real, and often hilariously funny.

| Oct 18, 2021

It will show Hollywood once more that technical brilliance and novelty can never take the place of a good story with heart, humor and sympathy -- and something to think about when the picture is over.

| Oct 18, 2021

Woven about the sensitive lonely-boy-meets-lonely-girl theme is a wealth of wonderfully pithy observation.

| Oct 18, 2021

Marty remains real and different -- at once comic, tender, sad and true. It is a film played entirely by character actors, each one hand-picked and perfect In his role.

| Oct 18, 2021

Thanks to Ernest Borgnine. who plays a love-sick butcher, it is also a great and very moving film.

| Oct 18, 2021

[Borgnine gives] a brilliant performance, with some very clever changes of mood. His work is matched by Betsy Blair as the girl. Her eagerness and anxieties are shown most poignantly.

| Oct 18, 2021

Amiable, despairing, elated Ernest Borgnine is splendid as the hero. It is a superb performance.

| Oct 18, 2021

It gives an utterly authentic picture of life in the New York Bronx district... while at the same time carrying us away by a love story that in its simple manner is more touching than many of the screen's more glamorous ones.

| Jul 15, 2020

Marty, in detail a study of life in the Bronx, is in essence a contemporary love story, a romantic encounter developed with charm, humour and emotional penetration.

| Jan 29, 2020

It is a sentimental, heart-warming, simple story of a couple of ugly ducklings who find compensation for their lack of good looks in each other's love.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 24, 2016

Ernest Borgnine as Marty lives up to all the promise he showed as the sadist in From Here to Eternity, and at the same time brilliantly shatters the type-cast he molded for himself in that picture.

| Feb 18, 2009

Enormously influential, it spawned Hollywood's interest in smaller scale, prosaic dramas, few of which failed to match its resonance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 20, 2008

It's a warm, human, sometimes sentimental and an enjoyable experience.

| Feb 19, 2008