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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonLos Angeles TimesSheila BensonTo say the film is the treasure of the year would be to bad-mouth it in this disastrous season. Prizzi's Honor would be the vastly original centerpiece of a great year. It's a rich, dense character comedy in which Huston, working from a screenplay Richard Condon and Janet Roach adapted from Condon's novel, cocks a playful but unblinking eye at love, family loyalty and the togetherness of a happy marriage--Sicilian style.
- 100Probably the funniest mobster movie ever...A sublime meld of black satire, high camp and happy farce.
- 100Chicago TribuneGene SiskelChicago TribuneGene SiskelThis film would be a winner any time of the year. It`s a classic piece of moviemaking that I plan on seeing again very soon.
- 100TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThis was the penultimate film from the ailing great director. It is also one of his best.
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis is the most bizarre comedy in many a month, a movie so dark, so cynical and so funny that perhaps only Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner could have kept straight faces during the love scenes. They do.
- 80Time OutTime OutThe movie's success lies in Huston's very sure manipulation of mood and tone, somehow connecting black comedy, tongue-in-cheek acting, heavy irony, and even high camp into a coherent story.
- 60EmpireWilliam ThomasEmpireWilliam ThomasNot one of Nicholson's best, but an enjoyable comedy nonetheless.
- 50Miami HeraldBill CosfordMiami HeraldBill CosfordSomeone involved with Prizzi's Honor, the new film from John Huston and starring Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner, doubtless thinks it's a fine satire, a comedy so black it will have us all squirming. There's no other explanation for the long stretches of time the movie spends on "idle," all that potential power, going nowhere. [14 June 1985, p.D1]
- 40Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrHuston does a reverse take on the material, underplaying the grotesque situation until it turns into a parody on the problems of the average working couple, but the pacing is so lugubrious that the laughs never materialize.