Catch-22
It's a special film about Captain John Yusarian (Alan Arkin), a pilot based in the Mediterranean. This man performs dangerous missions by bombing during World War II. At that time, John was trying hard to escape the impasse in which he was located and his painful and absurd attitude.
3 August 1940, Dayton, Ohio, USA
29 December 1938, Yonkers, New York, USA
27 March 1940, Warren, Ohio, USA
24 April 1928, New York City, New York, USA
30 December 1935, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
6 May 1915, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
4 April 1932, New York City, New York, USA
11 August 1908, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
18 September 1924, Avezzano, Abruzzo, Italy
July 13, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
4 February 1935, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
4 December 1945, USA
5 November 1941, Forest Hills, New York, USA
5 May 1935, Rome, Lazio, Italy
5 September 1929, Oak Park, Illinois, USA
25 July 1908, New York City, New York, USA
21 May 1933, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
6 August 1938, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
4 November 1919, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
4 April 1921, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
12 November 1916, New Jersey, USA
21 April 1935, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
29 December 1946, Campi Bisenzio, Tuscany, Italy
16 August 1945, Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 March 1938, San Antonio, Texas, USA
6 July 1930, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
17 July 1900, Paris, France
22 May 1938, New York City, New York, USA
August 13, 2003
Flawed, but frequently brilliant.
June 19, 2003
A mess, occasionally a fascinating one.
July 26, 2002
Can't capture the brilliance of the source material ... but does a pretty good job all the same.
May 30, 2005
Still positively chilling.
May 20, 2003
Quite simply, the best American film I've seen this year.
July 22, 2005
Released during the Vietnam War, the movie was a commercial failure, but seen from today's perspective, its black humor holds up well.
October 26, 2008
If you liked M*A*S*H, You'll love this!
February 09, 2006
Though the vertiginously absurdist logic of the book is hopelessly fractured, some of it does filter through (the mostly superb performances are a great help).
May 13, 2004
Starts out pretty funny, gets incredibly weird by the end.
October 23, 2004
Nichols has done the same thing in "Catch-22" that he did in "The Graduate." He's given us a funny beginning, then switched tones and gone serious.
October 13, 2008
What a strange and mesmerizing folly.
November 23, 2014
The film is cynical and bitterly cold. Nichols has hit one out of three virtues.
