This is a boring, pointless, ridiculous waste of time. Some of the worst music ever. For every thing that is interesting there are at least five things that are not. It is weird, which is ordinarily good, but this just drags on and on and nothing much materializes. It is always on the verge of going somewhere, but fizzles out each time. I normally love Sissy Spacek and Shelly Duvall, but not in this movie. It is very hard to like.

It's been almost a year since I've seen this film, and whenever I think about I get all warm and happy. So great! So much great stuff here, lots of unique imagery. I especially liked the raised middle finger to all the machismo in 70s American film, almost every male character in this film is a sex obsessed doofus. But it's never over done, perfectly stated.

Other than the eerie psychedelic sequences Altman fails to deliver with a good premise and falls into the land of needlessly depressive. Spacek and Duvall was a clever match though.

Duvall and Spacek are wonderful as a pair of socially alienated wannabes. The film gets gradually creepier and more surreal in tone. Fascinating.

This is a very tense, artistic film. It had the same atmospheric feel as a horror movie, but there were no scares; it was a different kind of unease. It's the type of movie that, if it were not made as well as Altman was able, could've been very dull and uninteresting; instead, not to sound cliche, it grabs hold of you from start to finish.

It is very hard to describe a film like "3 Women", because there is so much going on in every frame. The film plays like a dream. It's so dreamlike as it passes on so many dreamy imagery and situations, before that "shift" comes halfway in, and the film becomes a virtual nightmare.

Dark, mysterious and haunting, but also a little unsatisfying - it has great build up but in the end being deliberately enigmatic without a clear purpose feels kind of cheap.

Close to great. I didn't love it, but I really liked it. It plays a lot like a Bunuel film.

An interesting experiment from Altman, but it's not really his strongest. Duvall and Spacek do a great job and I felt genuinely sorry for Duvall especially.

entertaining and interesting but dated

A great atmosphere-piece by Altman in a very intuitive mood. Along with dealing with dreams, hallucinations and the fluidity of identity it's also, as I see it, a portrait of social alienation uncommonly found in such a sunny climate (which adds to the hazy mood). It's also predating David Lynch in many aspects (especially Mulholland Drive).

A strange trio of women in one of Altman's strangest and best films.

What Bergman's Persona might have been, if it was more refined.

The Chabad thriftstore addition of Mullholand Drive.

Perfectly matches the feeling of a dream and a nightmare too. Sissy Spacek and Shelley Duvall are both great and I think David Lynch must've borrowed a good deal from this.

What the hell, this is terrible. It's like a proto-Lynch film whose mystery you couldn't care less about. Reinforces my impression from The Shining that Shelley Duvall is just a bad actress.

The first half of the film works like a dream. The cutting is soft, lots of fades and wipes. Scenes wash by like lapping water. It's slow and eerie --the atmosphere provided by Gerald Busby's score has distinct horror overtones-- enigmatic, and resists attempts to decipher what happened. If Altman is trying to make some larger societal point in the relation of the numb Millie and Pinkie to the silent but powerful Willie and her murals, it was beyond me on the first viewing.

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Sissy Spacek's scariest performance, bar none.