Jack Nicholson delivers one of this best performances in James Foley's simplistic, yet powerful and effective character study. A key example of the American New wave. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2023

If 'Easy Rider' is the epitaph for the sixties, 'Five Easy Pieces' ushers in the silver age of personal filmmaking in the seventies. It’s a silent scream of alienation and narcissism with a revelatory performance by Nicholson...

| Aug 19, 2023

A moody study on alienation, class status and dropping-out.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 22, 2022

It was Five Easy Pieces that proved (Jack Nicholson) to be a performer of considerable depth and emotion.

| Feb 23, 2022

A landmark of counterculture filmmaking.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 12, 2022

In Easy Rider Nicholson's brilliant cameo was just too short. It left us whetted and fascinated like a tantalizing apertif. Now in Five Easy Pieces Nicholson is given scope.

| Jan 7, 2021

A courageous character study and an acting masterclass.

| Nov 13, 2020

Nicholson gives a galvanizing performance as a drifter who knows no tribe of his own, an updated anti-hero seething with self-loathing and discontent.

| Apr 19, 2019

If the function of art is to help an audience feel less alone, then Five Easy Pieces succeeds beautifully.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 4, 2019

A very modern film. Elliptical, absurdist, harshly humorous, convulsively lyrical.

| Nov 18, 2017

Gritty '70s drama about alienation has sex, cursing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2016

[UPDATED 2024 REVIEW] A new kind of picture even for its era. Jack Nicholson's performance still stands as one of his greatest.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 4, 2015

Director Bob Rafelson attempts something unusual here, making a film that's subtle about its meaning without ever ranging into the pretentiously oblique or merely ambiguous.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 1, 2015

The flaws of this acutely self-conscious 1970 road picture grow more obvious with every passing year, but so does its passion and eloquence.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2014

The movie has more anger than it knows what to do with; that's its fascination and its weakness, too.

Full Review | Jun 16, 2014

This superbly composed film comes as close to perfection as it gets.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 16, 2014

A key turn-of-the-decade film, with Nicholson railing against waitresses and barking at noisy dogs as Rafelson observes seedily picturesque roadside America.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 16, 2014

The film, superbly directed by Rafelson, shifts the late 1960s hippy drop-out genre into the Ingmar Bergman class: it's cerebral, yes, but also moving and witty.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 16, 2014

The movie is a succession of dazzling scenes.

| Jun 16, 2014

The landscape photography of Lszl Kovcs is a minor marvel, while the sound design is an intelligent complement to the sonorities evoked in the film's title.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2014