New York Times
"...A small, wise, breezy footnote [to the 1960's]....Genuinely funny..." 03/27/1987 p.C9Variety
"...The humor is both brutal and clever, and the acting uniformly excellent..." 02/11/1987 Los Angeles Times
"...WITHNAIL AND I is as good to look at as it is to listen to.....A knockout directorial debut..." 06/30/1987 p.C1 Entertainment Weekly
"...Never before had the antics of two boozers been portrayed as charmingly and unapologetically as in Bruce Robinson's semiautobiographical story..." 08/03/2001 p.47 Ultimate DVD
5 stars out of 5 -- "Robinson's classic film about two drink-sodden out of work actors going on holiday by mistake has lost none of its poignant hilarity." 10/01/2006 p.119 Sight and Sound
"[I]t crackles with stoner wit and despairing self-indulgence, and confirms Richard E. Grant's caddish and cowardly sot Withnail as one of English film's great grotesques." 12/01/2006 p.92 Empire
5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his remains essential cinema for newcomers, but beyond nostalgia there's plenty to come back to, like the gorgeously grotty production design." 10/01/2007 p.49 | 
