Director [link=nm0000273} had gathered the best actresses and actors available at the time, and it is a pleasure watching them work, but in the end, a movie sums up to all its components. In the case of "Little Murders", it's the script that's just not holding up to present times, and if the script doesn't work anymore, there is nothing the rest can do to make it matter. For one thing, you can hear the stage play paper crackle in the dialogues. And, typical for the time, there are too many punch lines, too many brute force plot twists - not to speak of the constant urge to lecture. I can understand the positive reviews here, but nostalgia shouldn't count in a present-day review. The question is: Does this movie work in a today's context? It doesn't. It's clearly attached to a 1971 perspective. In that view, it's an honourable undertaking. But is it transferable to 2022? No, it isn't. What remains, is pure nostalgia: the actresses, the actors, the retro-fashion, '71-New York - that's all cool - no question - but is this movie still enlightening? It's clearly not.
Review of Little Murders
