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

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

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 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

A film important to and influential in the flower-power late '60s, Easy Rider now seems like a narcissistic hodgepodge of travelogue and passion play.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Nov 17, 2011

Fonda himself has given this a fine production dress, with associate Bert Schneider, and the brilliant lensing, excellent music background ballads, especially Bob Dylan's Easy Rider, are fine counterpoints to this poetic trip along Southwest America.

| Jun 26, 2007

The film may be a relic now, but it is a fascinating souvenir -- particularly in its narcissism and fatalism -- of how the hippie movement thought of itself.

| Jun 26, 2007

[A] simplistic amalgam of travelogue and the zoom lens.

| Jan 26, 2006

Yeah, yeah. It's dated. So what of it? It kinda rawks.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 10, 2005

Hopper, Fonda and their friends went out into America looking for a movie and found instead a small, pious statement (upper case) about our society (upper case), which is sick (upper case). It's pretty but lower case cinema.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 20, 2003

It plays today more as a period piece than as living cinema, but it captures so surely the tone and look of that moment in time.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 25, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 24, 2002

This is the movie by which Hollywood discovered the commercial power of 'youth culture.'

| Jan 1, 2000