“Easy Rider” is a socially conscious film and a great debut for actor-writer-director Dennis Hopper, but it is extremely slow and really lacks a stable plot.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 4, 2023

The little road movie of hippy bikers was an odyssey for the era of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, of Vietnam and protest marches, of idealism and cynicism stirred by the volatile culture clash of the late sixties.

| Aug 19, 2023

Ninety-four minutes of what it is to swing, to watch, to be fond, to hold opinions, and to get killed in America at this moment.

| Jul 6, 2022

Easy Rider is not consistently well made, but it’s purposefully made, and the purpose pays off.

| Jun 21, 2022

That it still crackles with countercultural energy is down mainly to a soundtrack featuring Jimi Hendrix, the Byrds and Steppenwolf and a cast stuffed with anti-establishment icons.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2021

Despite the engaging look, themes, and editing, the story is largely lacking and drastically unhurried.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 24, 2020

Easy Rider's honesty, its beautiful, honest simplemindedness, could make it one of the surprise hits of the year.

| Aug 13, 2020

Easy Rider deals with the most important issues facing America -- and for that reason its superficiality is the more deplorable.

| Jul 1, 2020

It succeeds where it matters most, in communicating a yearning vision of a different way of life, in an America seen as a vast, unexplored repository of beauty, optimism and adventure.

| Mar 18, 2020

Easy Rider is very likely the clearest and most disturbing presentation of the angry estrangement of American youth to be brought to the screen.

| Jul 16, 2019

Easy Rider, a sparsely written cross-country movie with a Don Quixote and Sancho Panza on extravagant motorcycles, is marred by draggy, romantic material.

| Jun 18, 2019

Beyond the melodrama of groovy kids vs. rednecks is an emotion that more and more of us, young and old alike, are experiencing, the overpowering sense of loss, the anguish of What went wrong? We blew it -- how?

| Mar 28, 2017

"Easy Rider," even for those uninterested in the legacy of 1960s counterculture, punches the viewer in the gut with its hopelessness and emptiness.

| Jun 3, 2016

Easy Rider, is not only emblematic of independent American cinema, but, released in 1969, is the definitive statement on the death of the 60s.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 9, 2016

Iconic 1969 road trip movie with violence, drugs, sex.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2014

Though deserving of its esteemed status on account of the cinematic revolution it spawned, the feature itself is something of a relic. But since when isn't it fascinating to reflect on the fossils of the past?

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 11, 2013

Fonda and Hopper, it should by this time go without saying, give immense performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2013

Age hasn't been kind to it but Easy Rider is still a trip.

| Feb 25, 2013

This is a glorious widescreen vision of a hot and bothered America, at once beautiful and lost. Yes, it has dated, but its pessimistic last gasp ("We blew it...") still carries a prescient sting.

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

Wyatt and Billy are more rigidly conformist, their life more narrowly obsessive than that of any broker's clerk on the nine to five.

| Feb 25, 2013