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Bonnie & Clyde

1967

Arthur Penn

Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman ...

7.3

18,102

Action. Drama. Thriller Based loosely on the true exploits of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker during the 30s. Bonnie Parker is bored with life and wants a change. She gets her chance when she meets a charming young drifter by the name of Clyde Barrow. Clyde has dreams of a life of crime that will free him from the hardships of the Depression. The two fall in love and begin a crime spree that extends from Oklahoma to Texas. They rob small banks with skill and ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Bonnie and Clyde' is a milestone in the history of American movies, a work of truth and brilliance. It is also pitilessly cruel, filled with sympathy, nauseating, funny, heartbreaking... (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Dave Kaufman Variety	"Incongruously couples comedy with crime (...) Like the film itself, the performances are mostly erratic. Beatty is believable at times, but his characterization lacks any consistency."	NEG
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"This blending of farce with brutal killings is as pointless as it is lacking in taste, since it makes no valid commentary upon the already travestied truth."	NEG
United States	John Mahoney The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] marks a new peak in the work of director Arthur Penn, an exceptional screenplay by David Newman and Robert Benton and the emergence of Faye Dunaway as a screen personality equal to the importance of her assignments."	POS
United States	Time	"“Low-down Hoedown (...) [It] rides off in all directions and ends up full of holes."	NEG
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"Our experience as we watch it has some connection with the way we reacted to movies in childhood: with how we came to love them and to feel they were ours (...) The best editing in an American movie in a long time"	POS
United Kingdom	Simon Braud Empire	"For better or worse, American cinema changed forever the day 'Bonnie And Clyde' was released (...) Brutal crime romp with a pair of charismatic central performances (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Radio Times	"One of the most stylish and uncompromising of gangster pictures (...) David Newman and Robert Benton's sizzling script (...) and Arthur Penn's bravura direction are as fresh as ever (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Milne Time Out	"It's still great: half comic fairytale, half brutal fact, it reflects the essential ambiguity of its heroes (...) It has the true quality of folk legend."	POS
United States	Eric Henderson Slant	"What 'Bonnie and Clyde' added to this mix of preexisting ingredients was all but spelled out in the love-childish tagline: 'They’re young. They’re in love. And they kill people.' (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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