While I don’t exactly have the stomach for the violence, the sexism or the racism/xenophobia of The Wild Bunch, I do admire it for its artistic and technical aspects. There’s something oddly fascinating about the film...

| Jul 31, 2024

To say that The Wild Bunch is a violent masterpiece would not be an understatement.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 31, 2023

The pictorial style of the film — classical, elegiac — bumps up against the technique that fractures and prolongs death.

| Original Score: A+ | Aug 24, 2022

Apart from Peckinpah's simple technical control and the cut of his script, which is a knife that never slips off the bone, there is an angry quality to his mind.

| Jul 7, 2022

Demystifying the traditional Western through raw, unglamorous violence, The Wild Bunch exploded onto the screen in 1969 and altered the face of the genre, and filmmaking, forever.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 23, 2022

This controversial epic was as highly praised as it was condemned upon its release, boomingly announcing the arrival of daring new director.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 27, 2020

It is one of the greatest of all westerns.

| Jul 30, 2020

It has canonized, for our enjoyment and monstrous edification, the freak-out.

| Jul 16, 2020

The result is one of the strongest emotional kickbacks of any film. The Wild Bunch does for the emotions what Shane did for the intellect.

| Jul 1, 2020

The film drives to its foregone conclusion with the sureness of an arrow.

| Mar 18, 2020

If you must see The Wild Bunch, be sure to take along a barf bag.

| Jan 1, 2020

The Wild Bunch is the last and indisputable epic story of the Western genre. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 6, 2019

There is an unpleasant feeling of expense, of enormous amounts of money being spent, tons of footage being shot in order to get one slow-motion instant that will stamp home Peckinpah's obsessive theme

| Jun 18, 2019

My favorite western because of the staunch code of loyalty and ethics employed by men outside the law, and for the amazing mingling of eras - the Mexican civil war, Germans and early airplanes are all factors in small but haunting ways.

| May 24, 2019

Peckinpah's work, immaculately framed and searingly edited, leads us to wonder whether film form is hopelessly, and inevitably, in thrall to brutality.

| Dec 3, 2018

Remains hugely impressive, both for its technical brilliance and the emotional ferocity of its themes: old age, friendship, betrayal and the struggle to retain some kind of cock-eyed code of honour in an increasingly cynical world.

| Dec 3, 2018

Peckinpah plaits simple strands into an intricate pattern of contradictions and moral ambiguities.

| Nov 11, 2018

Underneath the movie, which is set on the eve of World War I, there's an elegiac plangency that stays with you long after the shocks have worn off...The Wild Bunch still won't go down easy.

| Feb 21, 2018

Extremely violent '60s Western with drinking and sex.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 28, 2017

It's a traumatic poem of violence, with imagery as ambivalent as Goya's.

| Mar 28, 2016