Easy Rider
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86 out of 100

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7.4 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 27 Ratings

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  • Starring: Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda
  • Summary: An alcoholic attorney (Nicholson) hooks up with two part-time, drug-dealing motorcyclists (Fonda and Hopper) in search of their "American Dream." Heading from California to New Orleans, they sample the highs and lows of America the beautiful in a stoned-out quest for life's true meaning. (Sony Pictures)… Collapse

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    100
    A finely observed film but insufficiently developed as a satire of middle America. [Review of re-release]
  2. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    100
    Someday it was inevitable that a great film would come along, utilizing the motorcycle genre, the same way the great Westerns suddenly made everyone realize they were a legitimate American art form, Easy Rider is the picture.
  3. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    100
    Fonda and Hopper’s now-classic film hit the old guard with the force of a rifle shot to the head. [Review of re-release]
  4. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Vincent Canby
    70
    With the exception of Nicholson, its good things are familiar things - the rock score, the lovely, sometimes impressionistic photography by Laszlo Kovacs, the faces of small-town America.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 3 out of 6
  1. BuzzC.
    10
    Strange. But very cool!
  2. ryancarroll88
    7
    Just as the film explores what the limits of freedom are in an unjust and prejudiced world, the actual movie pushes the limits of the quality of a picture produced by two drugged-out stars on the road, defying the logic of big, Hollywood, money-bloated moguls. But just as the taste of total freedom turns sour in the movie, the question of whether this movie should be considered a classic is a shaky "I don't know..."… Expand
  3. ShannonP.
    3
    Portrays the hippie/drug culture wanderers with great depth and sympathy, but paints middle America with a broad nasty brush. Slow. Boring. Very little actually happens and when it does, it takes the easy way out. If this had been released 10 years later, it would have been relegated to the dustbin. And I wanted to like it.… Expand
  4. DBZ0wnz
    1
    This has gotta be the worst movie ever made, nothing appealing except Jack Nicholson, Two guys riding throughout the movie which is very tedious to enjoy.… Expand

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