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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

1974

Sam Peckinpah

Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Gig Young, Kris Kristofferson ...

7.2

6,924

Action. Adventure. Thriller. Romance An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The movie is some kind of bizarre masterpiece. It's probably not a movie that most people would like, but violence, with Peckinpah, sometimes becomes a psychic ballet."	POS
United States	Louis Black Austin Chronicle	"A profound existential adventure, twistedly comic and openly bitter"	POS
United States	Nora Sayre The New York Times	"The movie's main problem is that the protagonist -- the dead head -- is a bore."	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A macabre masterpiece"	POS
United States	Nick Schager Slant	"For something so bleak, so purposely revolting and unsentimental, there are reservoirs of profound poetry in Alfredo Garcia"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Everything you’d expect of a Peckinpah film is on view in his most fully realised project: slow motion, Gothic angles, violence, misogyny... But there’s no denying the power of this lament for what his country had become"	POS
United States	Keith Phipps TV Guide	"The title is grim. The movie is grimmer (...) it has the feel of a valedictory work, a last chance for the artist to grapple with the big issues on his own terms."	POS

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