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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrStill Robert Altman's best moment, this 1971 antiwestern murmurs softly of love, death, and capitalism.
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIn McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Altman uses a tactfully unobtrusive camera, a distinctive conversational style of dialog and the fluid movements of his actors to give us people who are characters from the moment we see them; we have the sense that when they leave camera range they're still thinking, humming, scratching, chewing and nodding to each other in the street.
- 100The GuardianXan BrooksThe GuardianXan BrooksIf anything, Robert Altman's self-styled "anti-western" looks even richer, stranger and more daring than it did when it first appeared back in 1971.
- A truly great western.
- 100SalonCharles TaylorSalonCharles TaylorThe movie haunts you like a ballad whose tune you remember but whose words hang just beyond reach. And like listening to a ballad, we know the outcome of the events we're watching was foretold long ago, but we're helpless to do anything but surrender to the tale.
- 100TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineA grim and dirty slice of bleak frontier life rendered with extraordinary beauty.
- 88LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenLarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenMcCabe & Mrs. Miller is less a deromanticized Western than an emasculated one. It’s a de-pantsing, really, of the strong, silent men who have long dominated the genre. Drop a stronger, louder woman into their midst, and they’re done.
- 80Time OutTime OutOne of the best of Altman's early movies, using classic themes - the ill-fated love of gambler and whore, the gunman who dies by the gun, the contest between little man and big business - to produce a non-heroic Western.
- 50The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyI don't automatically object to contemporary allusions, but I prefer to find them myself, and McCabe and Mrs. Miller is so busy pointing them out to us that the effect is to undercut its narrative drive and the dignity of its fiction.
- 50Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a disappointing mixture. A period story about a small northwest mountain village where stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie run the bordello, the production suffers from overlength; also a serious effort at moody photography which backfires into pretentiousness; plus a diffused comedy-drama plot line which is repeatedly shoved aside in favor of bawdiness.