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Badlands

In 1959 a lot of people were killing time. Kit and Holly were killing people.

1974 · 1h 34m · PG Crime, Drama, Romance
Directed by Terrence Malick

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Overview

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

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97%
Tomatometer
Fresh

In the fall of 1973, one could see signposts of cinema's future in Mean Streets and The Exorcist, yet with this youthful pair of proto-indie dreamers, Malick was paving a whole new road. It turned out to be the path most traveled.

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Fresh

Days of Heaven put Terrence Malick's intuitions into cogent form, but this is where his art begins.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh

This first, magnificent, outpouring of the sporadic genius of cinema's equivalent to JD Salinger, Terrence Malick, still seems terrifically modern.

Wally Hammond, Time Out
Fresh

Written, produced and directed by Terrence Malick, pic is his first feature and it's an impressive debut.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

Among the great American crime movies, 1973's Badlands stands alone.

Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle

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