Even at its trashiest the movie keeps bumping along.

| Sep 13, 2023

George Miller, who directed the Mad Max trilogy, has made The Witches of Eastwick a provocative movie, decidedly unwholesome without being cynical, when so many movies today are either sentimental, or cynical in a transparently sentimental way.

| May 20, 2022

All in all, a polished and witty bit of male sexual panic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 10, 2022

Nicholson doesn't need special effects; he is one himself. Yet on balance, the film is mostly an outrageous, foul-mouthed good time.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 22, 2022

Jack Nicholson plays “Just your average horny little devil” in The Witches of Eastwick, an entertaining, albeit uneven, conjuring from Warner Bros. that will likely cast a strong spell at the box office.

| Apr 22, 2022

With a no-holds-barred performance by Jack Nicholson as the horny Satan, it’s a very funny and irresistible set-up for anyone who has ever been baffled by the opposite sex.

| Apr 22, 2022

The Witches of Eastwick brings a broad, obvious, punchy style and a lot of special effects to bear upon a story of seduction that is much too frail to support this kind of gimmickry.

| Apr 22, 2022

The Witches of Eastwick is filmmaking of a very high order; it's also a great time at the movies.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 22, 2022

Mad Max director George Miller films this New Testament moralizing with bounce but no particular style; his distinct cinematic flavor seems to depend on his subject matter.

| Apr 22, 2022

Whatever the movie's failings -- and they are monumental -- for the moment in which the devil throws the definitive post-Freudian male fit... The Witches of Eastwick is worth all we must endure.

| Apr 22, 2022

Nicholson is nothing short of brilliant in an electrifying performance that mixes manic eeriness with a delightful comedic flair.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 22, 2022

The Witches of Eastwick is a diverting, impeccably polished and excellently cast movie. But its charms fade fast, about as fast as it takes to leave the theater.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 22, 2022

A sublime, albeit surreal, sex farce is not an obvious assignment for a fellow who made his mark fashioning post-apocalyptic mayhem movies. To his credit, Miller carries off the transition splendidly.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 22, 2022

I found it fascinating, amusing and at moments beautiful. It also may be imaginative, literate and adult at a time when 14-year-olds seem to dictate what the rest of us get to see at the movies. But it isn't Updike.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 22, 2022

Although The Witches of Eastwick has little to say, it says it with flashes of brilliance. It's one of those movies in which the parts are better than the whole.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 22, 2022

By placing the ball in Nicholson's court, Miller allows the movie to run away with his megabuck star. It ultimately disintegrates into just a routine horror flick with some cheesy-looking special effects.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 22, 2022

Nicholson hardly gives the performance of his career in The Witches of Eastwick, but it's an effective performance, one that fills up an already full screen. And as usual, Jack Nicholson is the most interesting thing in the movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2022

It's hard to name a film-maker who has had so much fun with the supernatural as Miller has here. Or an actor like Nicholson, who has abetted him so wantonly.

| Apr 22, 2022

In a film that occasionally trips over its supernatural technical tricks, Nicholson proves to be the greatest special effect of them all.

| Apr 22, 2022

Its performers either need recharges or hormonal supplements, because the film is about as erotic as a tool and die catalogue.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 22, 2022