Bonnie and Clyde expanded the parameters of cinema through its precise melding of bold and exciting techniques, particularly signified by its world-class innovations in camerawork, editing, lighting, and sound.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 11, 2025

The story’s simple; what’s complex... is its tragicomic tone: Director Arthur Penn channels the social unease of the ’60s through these folk heroes of the ’30s, allowing the counterculture to indulge a violent fantasy of social rebellion.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 7, 2025

“Bonnie and Clyde” saved American cinema

| Sep 10, 2024

Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty excel as the gun-toting criminals who roamed the American Midwest during the Depression, while David Newman and Robert Benton's sizzling script and Arthur Penn's bravura direction are as fresh as ever.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 7, 2024

An exciting, sometimes gruesomely humorous play on violence.

| May 1, 2024

Depression-era America is a dust bowl of photogenic desperation; the savagery of Bonnie and Clyde’s crime spree is only slightly disarmed by the gallows humour of the screenplay.

| Jan 2, 2024

Blew the doors open for depictions of violence in American cinema with a spasm of bloody, orgiastic beauty. Some say the movies have never recovered.

| Jul 23, 2023

Even if it isn’t the crème de la crème of New Hollywood classics, it is still captivating as a showcase for a thrillingly original character.

| Feb 2, 2023

While the supporting cast is great, the cinematography is amazing, and the bluegrass score sets a perfect tone, it’s the two leads who anchor the film.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

The violent and stylish film was one of the most influential ones of the 1960s.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 12, 2022

There is Hollywood before Bonnie & Clyde, and Hollywood after Bonnie & Clyde.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 12, 2021

Beatty and Dunaway make one of the most memorable and sexy onscreen duos through obvious chemistry and a decidedly one-sided passion.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 24, 2020

It smashed American film taboos about sex and violence while demonstrating a young Warren Beatty's unique power as actor/producer...

| Jun 16, 2020

If it's possible for a film's ending to feel at once ambiguous and definitive, Bonnie and Clyde leaves the viewer feeling torn apart without necessarily knowing why. Its mix of lyricism, brutality, and ambivalence...

| Apr 29, 2020

A few years ago, Truffaut, Godard and the Nouvelle Vague stole the gangster film from America and gave it new blood. Now Penn has taken it back home where it belongs, and in so doing has found a match for his temperament.

| Mar 18, 2020

Naturalism -- in characters and background -- is the mark of this film in its technical perfections. Saturated in time and place, we are left with the universality of the theme and its particular contemporary relevance.

| Feb 27, 2020

The direction is flashy and mainly superficial, and where a little analysis and involvement wouldn't have come amiss there's only the sheer confusion of one of the most extrovert syles in Hollywood.

| Feb 3, 2020

Gun crazy in love.

| Jul 25, 2019

Faye Dunaway glides, drifts like a vertical sashay. She goes into the movie at one end, comes out the other, leaving a graceful, faint, unengaged wake behind her.

| Oct 3, 2018

There's a feeling, thanks to the director's consciously oblique angle of vision, both of turning over fading newspaper files for over-romantic press stories, and of watching something alive and immediate.

| Jul 10, 2018