The film is strong, in every sense of that word.

| May 25, 2021

Gene Hackman and Al Pacino are wonderful, flexible, yeasty actors who make even the most trivial dialogue come alive, but their work in Scarecrow is too sophisticated for the film to support.

| May 25, 2021

"Scarecrow," principally because of the Hackman-Pacino tandem performance, has a kind of soiled, slum-charm...

| May 25, 2021

It isn't often a performance is really worth the price of admission, but if you can allow for Pacino, I think you'll find Hackman's work in "Scarecrow" to be that good.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 25, 2021

Thanks to an ingenious performance from Gene Hackman, "Scarecrow" commands more attention than its meandering and fundamentally pointless narrative deserves.

| May 25, 2021

Intelligent, raucously funny, startling, continuously interesting, and quite affecting.

| May 25, 2021

Jerry Schatzberg's film embraces sprawl of both the narrative and geographical variety with freewheeling abandon.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 16, 2013

Hollywood movies have rarely spoken such tough and tender truths.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 14, 2013

As a picture of blue-collar America the film is credible and compassionate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 26, 2013

This is a jewel of American cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 25, 2013

This is no lost classic, but Pacino/Hackman superfans could do a lot, lot worse.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 25, 2013

Periodically interesting but ultimately unsatisfying.

| Aug 16, 2010

Schatzberg throws away the more interesting implications in order to make emotional hay.

| Jun 24, 2006

I assume that Schatzberg and White wanted somehow to ennoble Max and Lionel, but they sentimentalize them.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 9, 2005

There are fine moments, as there would have to be with Hackman and Pacino.

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