Robert Benton (1932–2025)

A chaotic woman crashes a man's life.

3/4 (Good)

Chaos characters are great. Screwball comedies are great. This is far from perfect, but I was consistently delighted.

(Mar. 2022)

A baby from another galaxy grows up to fight for truth, justice and the American way.

There's a lot wrong with it, but it's fun anyway. And dude, it's a superhero movie in which the superhero actually fights crime! And solves problems that he didn't create himself! Why don't they do that anymore?

Concept: A
Story: D
Characters: C
Dialog: D
Pacing: C
Cinematography: B
Special effects/design: B
Acting: B
Music: C

Enjoyment: B

GPA: 2.4/4

One of the landmark films of the 1960s, Bonnie and Clyde changed the course of American cinema. Setting a milestone for screen violence that paved the way for Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this exercise in mythologized biography should not be labeled as a bloodbath; as critic Pauline Kael wrote in her rave review, "it's the absence of sadism that throws the audience off balance." The film is more of a poetic ode to the Great Depression, starring the dream team of Warren Beatty and Faye show more Dunaway as the titular antiheroes, who barrel across the South and Midwest robbing banks with Clyde's brother Buck (Gene Hackman), Buck's frantic wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons), and their faithful accomplice C.W. Moss (the inimitable Michael J. Pollard). Bonnie and Clyde is an unforgettable classic that has lost none of its power since the 1967 release. --Jeff Shannon show less

Every time I hear the first few notes from the theme music, I get goosebumps. I got them as a little kid in the theater. I get them when I watch the movie in my living room now. Other than Lynda Carter playing Wonder Woman, no one has ever embodied a comic book character on the screen as well as Christopher Reeve.