Fresh
Bonnie and Clyde don't really know that killing kills. The film does -- unlike the run of movies about violence now, which mostly know that killing sells.
Penelope Gilliatt, New Yorker
Bonnie and Clyde
They’re young… they’re in love… and they kill people.
1967 · 1h 51m · R
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Arthur Penn
Overview
In the 1930s, bored European-American waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with a European-American ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Bonnie and Clyde is the most excitingly American American movie since The Manchurian Candidate. The audience is alive to it.
Pauline Kael, New Yorker
Fresh
Considered New Hollywood's moment of arrival, tipping square critic Bosley Crowther into retirement (The New York Times, they were a-changin').
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice
Fresh
It's by far the least controlled of Penn's films... but the pieces work wonderfully well, propelled by what was then a very original acting style.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
This inconsistency of direction is the most obvious fault of Bonnie and Clyde, which has some good ingredients, although they are not meshed together well.
Dave Kaufman, Variety
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