Angelos Koutsourakis PopMatters Feb 21, 2024 10/10

One of the American Independent cinema masterpieces...

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Sean Burns Crooked Marquee Jul 16, 2022

No matter how many times I may have seen them before, watching a Cassavetes movie is always such a volatile emotional experience that for a few days afterward other films feel anemic to me.

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KC Star Staff Kansas City Star Mar 2, 2022

Despite some flaws, this is a powerful and important film, with a documentary naturalism seldom equaled.

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Paul Schrader Los Angeles Free Press Jan 25, 2020

The result is a film with a confused on-screen life, but with a rich cocktail party life-span.

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Manny Farber Artforum Jun 14, 2019

Lynn Carlin is near perfection, playing the deepest well of unexplored emotions as the wife of a rubber-faced business wow who seems like a detestable ham walk-on until he surprisingly lodges into the film's center for good.

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Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Feb 23, 2019 4/5

In Faces, Cassavetes forces us to confront people - and, consequently, ourselves - at their most vulnerable.

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Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm Feb 16, 2019 3.5/4

...constantly scratches its own skin.

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Penelope Houston The Spectator Aug 31, 2018

This wry, obstinate and fiercely independent film remains an actor's work.

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Pat Padua Spectrum Culture Aug 31, 2018

Despite Cassavetes's cynicism about his fellow man, his actors, who he directed to be real, not to act, found humanity even in the most seemingly contemptible characters.

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Margot Hentoff The New York Review of Books Mar 14, 2018

Cassavetes has taken a second-hand vision and, in the guise of empathy, transmuted it into a film which is so contemptuous that there is no one who cannot feel superior to what is happening on screen ...

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Jeremiah Kipp Slant Magazine Feb 14, 2009 3/4

Cassavetes was interested in actors and their freak-show intensities, and their performances give his films a hyper-real quality.

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Andrew L. Urban Urban Cinefile Jan 9, 2009

Cutting through cinematic fakery, Cassavetes scalps the marriage and its extended, often dysfunctional relationships

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Jun 24, 2008 B-

Drags its realism along like an overblown drunk tooting his own horn.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jul 3, 2006 B+

Cassavetes depicts marital problems with harsh, uncompromising realism and hand-held camera. The movie may be overlong and excessive, but it's always honest. .

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Jan 30, 2006 4/5

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Thomas Delapa Boulder Weekly Oct 4, 2005 3/5

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Bill Gibron DVDTalk.com Jul 28, 2005 4/5

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Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) May 16, 2005 3/5

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Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Mar 6, 2005 3/5

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