The late Alan Arkin enjoyed one of the all-time great "that guy" film careers, such a reliable utility player people forget his leading role in Mike Nichols' adaptation of the Joseph Heller novel.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 24, 2023

Cinematography by David Watkins and editing by Sam O'Steen are top class...

| Aug 23, 2022

Despite countless individual moments that result in humor, or alternatively, biting truth, the experience of watching Catch-22's inherent unevenness wears on the viewer.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 3, 2022

Catch-22 suffers from a lack of imagination... The movie needed a good dose of madness. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 30, 2019

Not so much a cohesive story as a string of only tangentially related vignettes stripped of their original context, Catch-22 fumbles as an adaptation and as a war film in its own right.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 28, 2018

Cynical and bitterly cold... [Mike] Nichols and [Buck] Henry fail to make an anti-capitalist film. They have made their case so strong that it becomes an anti-human film.

| Nov 23, 2014

If you liked M*A*S*H, You'll love this!

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2008

What a strange and mesmerizing folly.

| Original Score: A | Oct 13, 2008

Though the vertiginously absurdist logic of the book is hopelessly fractured, some of it does filter through (the mostly superb performances are a great help).

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 30, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 21, 2005

Released during the Vietnam War, the movie was a commercial failure, but seen from today's perspective, its black humor holds up well.

| Original Score: B | Jul 22, 2005

Still positively chilling.

| Original Score: B | May 30, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 27, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 13, 2005

Nichols has done the same thing in "Catch-22" that he did in "The Graduate." He's given us a funny beginning, then switched tones and gone serious.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 28, 2004

Starts out pretty funny, gets incredibly weird by the end.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 13, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2003