Review of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) by Roger Ebert for Chicago Sun-Times — 09 Sep 1984
So good in so many of its parts that there's a temptation to forgive it when it goes wrong. But it does go wrong, insisting on making larger points than its story really should carry, so that at the end, the human qualities of the characters get lost in the significance of it all.
And yet there are those moments of brilliance.
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This review of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) was written by Roger Ebert and published by Chicago Sun-Times on 09 Sep 1984.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has generally received very positive reviews.
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