Five Easy Pieces

"Five Easy Pieces" was one of the most revered films of the 1970s. It was the film that showed audiences what Jack Nicholson could do, after having worked for many years in movies that were seen only by real cinephiles,... Full review

"Five Easy Pieces" is one of the most interesting American films of the 1970s. It is also the movie that establishes Jack Nicholson as one of the decade's most important actors. When we first meet Nicholson, he is working at... Full review

Jack Nicholson plays the lone rebel who is infuriated with his prodigal and affluent upbringing in suburban Seattle...As a rebellion to his adolescent environment, he shifts his adult habitat to a ruralized lower middle class lifestyle in South Carolina!! Jack... Full review

This film is a classic because it operates and works on every level imaginable, a truly evocative film. Other posters have elucidated upon and discussed the musicology of it, and the significance of Chopin. I'll take their word for it,... Full review

In 1969, Jack Nicholson made his big break in "Easy Rider", and the very next year, he got his first lead role in another "easy": "Five Easy Pieces". He plays Robert Eroica "Bobby" Dupea, a man from a well-off musical family.... Full review

It's hard to believe a film this powerful and well acted could be put aside and forgotten about so easily. It's another powerful and unique film from the decade OF great films.Five Easy Pieces is simple yet complex film just... Full review

Previously known only for creating 'The Monkees', Bob Rafelson produced an underrated masterpiece when he made 'Five Easy Pieces', a film that deserves to be a lot better known. Jack Nicholson, typically intense but atypically understated, has possibly his finest... Full review

Among my favorite films ever - I was in college, 21 or so, circa 1991 the first time I saw this, courtesy of a filmgeek friend who owned a copy. He made a point of not telling any of us... Full review

After years doing Roger Corman quickies, Jack Nicholson emerged as a fully-formed mature actor in this great movie. I re-watched this film last week, and I still love it. Based partly on the life of eccentric Canadian concert pianist Glenn... Full review

In discussing films with extraordinary characterization, Bob Rafelson's "Five Easy Pieces" is an exemplary example. The film is an intense character study of an alienated, misfit drifter who seems to have no specific direction or place in life. Jack Nicholson... Full review

Five Easy Pieces " proved in 1970 that he was a great actor and a star. Five Easy Pieces " has the complexity, the nuance, the depth, of the best fiction. The last long scene, at the gas station, is the kind of ending the film deserves. ... Full Review

Five Easy Pieces established Rafelson and Nicholson as unique talents of the very first order. Each character is finely sketched and the dialogue is brilliant. It's packed full of delightful set-pieces, including the legendary scene in the diner. ... Full Review

After a shaky start in "B" pictures Jack Nichoslon arrived as one of our greatest and most instinctive actors, with a reservoir of charisma to boot. He lives a kind of half-life, dating a not-too-bright waitress (Karen Black) who fancies herself the next Tammy Wynette. ... Full Review

In one magical scene, he leaps from his car in a traffic jam and starts playing the piano on the truck in front of him; the scene sounds forced, described this way, but Rafelson and Nicholson never force anything, and never have to. Robert Eroica Dupea is one of the most unforgettable characters in American movies. ... Full Review

I ultimately will give Five Easy Pieces a guarded recommendation just because it's a very good film Nonetheless, it's a very good film. Five Easy Pieces stands as a strong film from relatively early in Nicholson's career. ... Full Review

Vanessa Hudgens rents 70's movie Five Easy Pieces at Blockbuster on Sunday (May 3) in Studio City, Calif. The 20-year-old Bandslam actress also picked up some books and yogurt before heading back to boyfriend Zac Efron 's home for a... ... Full Article

A disaffected man seeks a sense of identity in one of the key films of Hollywood's 1970s New Wave. Once a promising pianist from a family of classical musicians, Bobby Eroica Dupea ( Jack Nicholson , in his first major... ... Full Article

As I make my way on life's journey (wherever it is that it is heading), a favorite aphorism is one attributed to Lao-Tze and it goes: Everyone's entitled to an opinion. ... Full Article

Clap Your Hand Say Yeah's Thunder Is Ready To Roll Again 12/06/06 8:00pm 0 comments 5 love it 9 hate it Clap Your Hands Say Yeah released, distributed and promoted their self-titled debut in 2005, and became one of the... ... Full Article

Fri., Aug. 30, 2002 9:35 AM PDT by Josh Grossberg Rob Zombie's long-awaited horror flick, House of 1,000 Corpses , lives again. ? Lions Gate Films has announced it has purchased the rights to release the Gothic rocker's much-delayed gorefest,... ... Full Article

TEN-BEST lists are for appointed film critics. The rest of us do what we can to like as many films as possible, and I find I can muster nine for 2001, without too much cheating. In no particular order, it ... Full Article