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Bonnie and Clyde
Warner Bros.

Bonnie and Clyde reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 81 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.5 out of 10
based on 8 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R

Starring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Gene Wilder, Denver Pyle, and Dub Taylor

Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway are the legendary Depression-era bandits and lovers in this landmark film that won two Academy Awards and triggered a revolution in screen violence. (Warner Bros.)


GENRE(S): Crime  |  Drama  |  Romance  
WRITTEN BY: David Newman
Robert Benton
 
DIRECTED BY: Arthur Penn  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: May 18, 1999 
Video: May 2, 1992 
Theatrical: August 13, 1967 
RUNNING TIME: 111 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

The film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards in 1968, including a nomination for Best Picture, and picked up 2 Oscars in the categories of Best Supporting Actress (Parsons) and Best Cinematography.

What The Critics Said

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100
Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
So definitive in so many ways, Bonnie and Clyde has become a 20th-century touchstone.
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100
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
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, and astonishingly beautiful.
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100
ReelViews James Berardinelli
There is something special about the production, with its brash, vivid style, indelible performances by movie icons, and bold mixture of violence and comedy, romance and tragedy.
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90
TV Guide Staff (Not credited)
Landmark gangster film that made a huge commercial and cultural splash.
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90
Chicago Reader Dave Kehr
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.
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60
Variety Staff (Not credited)
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.
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58
Entertainment Weekly Staff (Not credited)
Penn's film oozes an intellectual's fashionable contempt for the characters.
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40
The New York Times Bosley Crowther
It is a cheap piece of bald-faced slapstick comedy that treats the hideous depredations of that sleazy, moronic pair as though they were as full of fun and frolic as the jazz-age cutups in "Thoroughly Modern Millie."
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

harry m. gave it a7:
A really voilent evil film not as good as most films.

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