Eddie Harrison film-authority.com Apr 6, 2026 5/5

‘…complete with an uplifting Bill Conti score, An Unmarried Woman is a Rocky story for women…a ground-breaking film about a woman’s search to find herself…’

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Chase Burns The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Jan 20, 2022

Clayburgh is dazzlingly frank. She carries a poker face when around the film's men. All her largest emotions are kept for herself. It's thrilling. I miss her.

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Jill Nicholls Spare Rib Sep 22, 2021

It's just another of those films made by a man with women in mind.

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Kathey Clarey Fresno Bee Aug 5, 2021

Jill Clayburgh portrays the woman, vulnerable, confused, and trying to be independent. It is a perfectly delightful performance from this polished young actress.

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Simran Hans New Statesman Oct 7, 2020

Clayburgh is luminous as Erica, wounded and stumbling, yet somehow graceful.

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Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Jul 29, 2020 3.5/5

An emotive score from Bill Conti and a beautiful rendering of late 70s New York from Arthur J. Ornitz add to the enduring appeal of An Unmarried Woman, a perfectly titled exercise.

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Jun 29, 2020 3.5/4

A key entry in the annals of feminist cinema.

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Judy Wynn Sojourner Aug 14, 2019

I'd recommend An Unmarried Woman as a funny, beautiful fairy-tale.

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Jesús Fernández Santos El Pais (Spain) Jul 31, 2019

The story is well made and effectively directed, but it has little to do with Paul Mazursky's previous films. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Bob Thomas Associated Press Jul 8, 2019

An Unmarried Woman explores the emotional turmoil of an abandoned wife with rare wit and perception.

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Jun 15, 2018 4/4

Clayburgh takes chances in this movie. She's out on an emotional limb. She's letting us see and experience things that many actresses simply couldn't reveal.

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Pauline Kael The New Yorker Apr 7, 2016

A tenderhearted feminist picture.

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Richard Brody The New Yorker Jun 15, 2015

The action unfolds with a documentary-style geographical specificity, offering a time capsule of Manhattan locations, uptown and downtown alike.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Aug 14, 2008 B+

Jill Clayburgh gives an iconic, Oscar nomination performance as an ordinary woman who goes through divorce and midlife crisis in Mazurski's quintessential New York movie, championed by the feminist movement of the 1970s.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Feb 27, 2008 B

Presents a credible single scene.

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Jan 30, 2006 1.5/4

...the movie is ultimately undone by a thoroughly dated, anachronistic aura...

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Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily Oct 9, 2005 4/5

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Jake Euker F5 (Wichita, KS) Jul 1, 2005 4/5

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Vincent Canby New York Times May 9, 2005

It is high comedy of a sharp, bitter kind, and Michael Murphy is fine as the weasel husband named Martin, but Miss Clayburgh is nothing less than extraordinary in what is the performance of the year to date.

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Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jan 29, 2005 3/5

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