No matter what impression the ads give, this isn't even remotely intended as an action film. It's a set piece. It's a ballet of stylized male violence.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 7, 2021

The Warriors admits to failures of conception (occasional) and dialogue (frequent), but there is much of value in Hill's visual elaboration of the material.

| Mar 7, 2021

There's a night-blooming, psychedelic shine to the whole baroque movie.

| Jan 3, 2018

It's both surrealistic pop art and sentimentalized pandering to the attitude of "us against them," the have-nots against the haves.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 9, 2016

If the movie is not as dangerous as its detractors claim, neither is it as glorious and memorable as some of its less discriminating admirers would have it.

| Sep 8, 2015

Mixing ironic humour, good music, and beautifully photographed suspense, it's one of the best of 1979.

| Jan 26, 2006

Just what is the fanboys' beef with the new DVD "Director's Cut" of The Warriors, anyway?

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 18, 2005

Mr. Hill uses subways, jukeboxes, spectacularly eerie costumes and deserted streets to create a stark yet extravagant visual style, and a grimy little world in which everything looks curiously brand-new.

| May 9, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 24, 2001