Gus Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy is a road movie on opioids.

| Feb 27, 2025

Drugstore Cowboy understands the pleasures and release that drugs can give people, and also how it finally bottoms out their souls.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 9, 2023

In all, Drugstore Cowboy has a few highs, but generally, this is a light dose of viewing valium.

| Aug 3, 2022

Drugstore Cowboy offers a deeply moving and profoundly beautiful film.

| May 20, 2020

A frazzled, dangerous and dark comedy-drama.

| Aug 20, 2010

One of those cult classics well worth investigating even if you have never so much as smoked a cigarette in your life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2010

All the actors are used expertly, but it's Burroughs, cropping up near the end, who articulates the film's sociopolitical moral in a contemporary context.

| Aug 20, 2010

No previous drug-themed film has the honesty or originality of Gus Van Sant's drama Drugstore Cowboy.

| Jul 6, 2010

Forthright junkie film.

| Original Score: B+ | May 3, 2010

Lyrically shot, this chronicle of a bunch of bumbling petty-criminals who steal pharmaceuticals is a tad too straightforward by Van Sant's standards, but the dialogue is funnt, the mood nonchalant, and Matt Dillon is terrific in the lead.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2006

Though hardly earth-shakingly original, Van Sant's low-budget movie takes a cool, contemplative and sometimes comic look at American drug-culture.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2005

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Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 13, 2003

A darkly funny, stylish, and realistic look at the world of drug addiction in 1971.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 30, 2003

The film takes us so deeply into this shabby, transient world that we feel its texture -- both its scary thrills and its bleak, fatalistic uncertainty.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2003