One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Critics' Reviews

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USA Today: Mike Clark
A masterpiece. (9 Jan 1998, p.3D)Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
So good in so many of its parts that there's a temptation to forgive it when it goes wrong. But it does go wrong, insisting on making larger points than its story really should carry, so that at the end, the human qualities of the characters get lost in the significance of it all. And yet there are those moments of brilliance.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Vincent Canby
A comedy that can't quite support its tragic conclusion, which is too schematic to be honestly moving, but it is acted with such a sense of life that one responds to its demonstration of humanity if not to its programmed metaphors.Read Full Review »
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