Even at its trashiest the movie keeps bumping along.

| Sep 13, 2023

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

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

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

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

One of our great (if less than versatile) overstated actors, Nicholson here proves himself in a league with Walter Huston, Charles Laughton, and Vincent Price in terms of ability to deliver generous slices of ham.

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

Miller tries to deliver a simplified but obviously ironic version of the novel. The result: When The Witches of Eastwick works, you can't help but be taken by it. But it doesn't work nearly as often as you might hope.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 22, 2022

In spite of the script's drawbacks and the director's weak knees, the performances of the stars and the superb supporting cast make The Witches of Eastwick an intelligent adult comedy.

| Apr 22, 2022

You can't believe a word of it, and the novel's twisted smile becomes a baleful roar that's far less credible.

| Apr 21, 2022

Some of the best talent in Hollywood has been brought together with devil-may-care extravagance that has for once paid off by producing something enjoyable and actually sexy.

| Apr 21, 2022

After his success with Mad Max, I can understand why George Miller pushes the notion of Mad Jack. But he allows Nicholson to give a coarse and crass performance in a role ideally made for Klaus-Maria Brandauer.

| Apr 21, 2022

It’s all very entertaining and very superficial (and Nicholson’s stops-out hamming is equal parts of both), more than a carnival of set pieces but something less than a fully realized film.

| Apr 21, 2022