... Riotously funny and rather bleak.

| Nov 29, 2022

It is ribald, cruel, sick, sacrilegious, offensive and enormously funny, continuously and wildly hilarious.

| Mar 27, 2020

The finest American comedy since Some Like It Hot, the Mr. Roberts of the Korean War, The Graduate of 1970, and the film that has been expected from director Robert Altman for some short time.

| Jan 25, 2018

As a savage comedy about man's rebellion in the face of death it has rarely been bettered.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2015

M.A.S.H., one of America's funniest bloody films, is also one of its bloodiest funny films.

| Mar 3, 2015

For me, M*A*S*H contains as much depression as humor.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 18, 2013

A good dint lower than its reputation, more so if you look at it not as one of the seminal 1970s films but instead as the first chapter from the finest filmmaking career spent examining the American mystique.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 15, 2009

This is still watchable for the verve of the ensemble acting and dovetailing direction, but some of the crassness leaves a sour aftertaste.

| Jun 27, 2007

In the end M.A.S.H. succeeds, in spite of its glaring faults.

| Jun 27, 2007

It shows Altman's stylistic signature in embryonic form.

| Jun 24, 2006

One of the reasons M*A*S*H is so funny is that it's so desperate.

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

Although it is impudent, bold, and often very funny, it lacks the sense of order (even in the midst of disorder) that seems the special province of successful comedy.

| May 21, 2003

Altman's irreverent portrait of a Korean War medical unit.

| Mar 10, 2003

Altman's black comedy perfectly expressed the anarchic, rebellious spirit of the 1970s with its blistering anti-war message and contempt for authority.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 17, 2001