Fresh
...a durable classic, the sort of comedy that doesn't try to yank laughs by cramming its fist down our throats.
Mark Bourne, Film.com
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The Odd Couple
Overview
In New York, Felix, a neurotic news writer who just broke up with his wife, is urged by his chaotic friend Oscar, a sports journalist, to move in with him, but their lifestyles are as different as night and day are, so Felix's ideas about housekeeping soon begin to irritate Oscar.
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Fresh
For all its overfamiliarity, this is a good play, easily Simon's best, and Matthau and Lemmon inhabit it with grace and style.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
An irresistible double act from Lemmon and Matthau.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Fresh
It does well as an evening's entertainment.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
The Neil Simon comedy that lit up Broadway for more than two years shines again in this flawed but still funny screen adaptation.
TIME Magazine
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