Robert Benton’s Bad Company is a downbeat revisionist western that deflates generic mythmaking while also saying a few choice things about its own day.

| Aug 15, 2024

You can perceive the dazzle in the script, but what’s on the screen is pictorial and lifeless.

| Sep 21, 2023

Despite some interesting ideas and some random achievements, "Bad Company" never really gets itself assembled.

| Sep 22, 2021

One of the year's most entertaining movies.

| Sep 22, 2021

It's been far too long since we've had a Western as good and as authentic as "Bad Company."

| Sep 22, 2021

Robert Benton and David Newman, the writing team responsible for "Bonnie and Clyde," tell a simple story here in a simple, quietly convincing way.

| Sep 22, 2021

It's one of the most authentic westerns ever made, and that puts it in undisputably good company.

| Sep 22, 2021

Benton excels In creating the appropriately gritty frontier atmosphere for his characters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2021

Bad Company is an excellent film which combines wry humor and gritty action with in-depth characterizations of two youths on the lam in the Civil War west.

| Mar 26, 2009

Benton's first film, a Western good enough to make everything he has done since seem disappointing by comparison.

Full Review | Jan 26, 2006

A naturalistic, irreverent and sometimes broadly comic view of a largely ignored aspect of the Civil War gives Bad Company a refreshingly good name.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 21, 2005

The movie is built as a series of more-or-less self-contained episodes, and the episodes that work are worth the effort.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004