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Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film four out of four stars and called it " terribly complicated, involved and fascinating-a revelation.

" He added, " The characters are larger than life ( although not less convincing because of that ), and their loves and rages, their fights and moments of tenderness, exist at exhausting levels of emotion.

Cassavetes is strongest as a writer and filmmaker at creating specific characters and then sticking with them through long, painful, uncompromising scenes until we know them well enough to read them, to predict what they'll do next and even to begin to understand why.

" Almost a quarter-century later, Ebert wrote a second review, in which he called Woman Under the Influence " perhaps the greatest of Cassavetes ' films.