One of the American Independent cinema masterpieces...

| Original Score: 10/10 | Feb 21, 2024

No matter how many times I may have seen them before, watching a Cassavetes movie is always such a volatile emotional experience that for a few days afterward other films feel anemic to me.

| Jul 16, 2022

Despite some flaws, this is a powerful and important film, with a documentary naturalism seldom equaled.

| Mar 2, 2022

The result is a film with a confused on-screen life, but with a rich cocktail party life-span.

| Jan 25, 2020

Lynn Carlin is near perfection, playing the deepest well of unexplored emotions as the wife of a rubber-faced business wow who seems like a detestable ham walk-on until he surprisingly lodges into the film's center for good.

| Jun 14, 2019

In Faces, Cassavetes forces us to confront people - and, consequently, ourselves - at their most vulnerable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2019

...constantly scratches its own skin.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 16, 2019

This wry, obstinate and fiercely independent film remains an actor's work.

| Aug 31, 2018

Despite Cassavetes's cynicism about his fellow man, his actors, who he directed to be real, not to act, found humanity even in the most seemingly contemptible characters.

| Aug 31, 2018

Cassavetes has taken a second-hand vision and, in the guise of empathy, transmuted it into a film which is so contemptuous that there is no one who cannot feel superior to what is happening on screen ...

| Mar 14, 2018

Along with A Woman Under the Influence, Cassavetes' most popular movie among critics, art-house audiences and Academy members.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 18, 2014

Cassavetes was interested in actors and their freak-show intensities, and their performances give his films a hyper-real quality.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 14, 2009

Cutting through cinematic fakery, Cassavetes scalps the marriage and its extended, often dysfunctional relationships

| Jan 9, 2009

Drags its realism along like an overblown drunk tooting his own horn.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 24, 2008

Though it is sometimes a tedious viewing experience, its improvisational and documentary techniques are rewarding.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 30, 2006

Cassavetes depicts marital problems with harsh, uncompromising realism and hand-held camera. The movie may be overlong and excessive, but it's always honest. .

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 3, 2006

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 28, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 16, 2005