...while not exactly box-fresh, there’s lots to enjoy in two big star performances, a strong sense of period detail (as you’d expect from a $50 million production) and a decidedly retro ‘respect the law’ POV….

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2024

The power of The Highwaymen is that it allows room for the viewer to draw their own conclusions.

| Original Score: B | May 10, 2024

I get the inevitable complaints of “too slow” and “not enough action”. Yet I found myself loving it – the slow burn, the prickly Costner, the subtle moral questions it tosses out there.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

Kevin Costner and [Woody Harr;elson, how can you go wrong?... they both do what they do well.

| Sep 30, 2021

"The Highwaymen" portrays the more upright ethics of the Depression era, law enforcement and media-wise, and feels vastly more realistic than its famous 1967 "Bonnie and Clyde" cinematic predecessor.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 26, 2021

The film is far too long but Costner and Harrelson make it worth your while what with their poignant, sincere performances.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Nov 14, 2020

It's unfair to hold such a modest effort to the high standard of the 1967 masterpiece. ... Still, it's a fine companion piece that's the type of old-fashioned, midrange, character-driven story that we don't get often enough these days.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 24, 2020

There's a reason why you probably haven't heard of Frank Hamer and Maney Gault before, and this lightweight film doesn't make much of a case for them having a story worth telling.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 2, 2020

The famous outlaws Bonnie & Clyde hardly get a single close-up in this fascinating study of the rangers brought out of retirement to track them down.

| Jun 26, 2020

The story behind the demise of legendary Bonnie & Clyde at the well-armed hands of two ageing Texas Rangers gets a solid, unhurried treatment here...Director John Lee Hancock directs the drama with a hard nose and with no love for the celebrity criminals.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 30, 2020

The Highwaymen wants to plumb its themes' moral ambiguity, but it wants to have a cut-and-dry ending even more.

| Jan 17, 2020

It's a shame, then, that this meeting of weirdo star power is never more than pedestrian...

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 8, 2020

A lot of why this works is because of [Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson's] chemistry together.

| Sep 23, 2019

Given its 50 million dollar budget, I can't help but wonder how that could have been better spent taking risks on lesser known, but more inspiring stories than this.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 17, 2019

The Highwaymen is a well-done period piece and stands out as an original Bonnie and Clyde themed tale.

| Original Score: 4 | Aug 15, 2019

Above all, what The Highwaymen is not is the Bonnie and Clyde story, shifting the focus in a way that proves unsatisfying.

| Jul 24, 2019

Costner and Harrelson take us on a new road towards Bonnie and Clyde.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 20, 2019

It isn't as dynamic or memorable as it could have been, but The Highwaymen still builds a compelling drama using a fascinating chapter from history combined with some solid acting and impressive camera work.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 8, 2019

The Highwaymen is made for a movie night in; unlike some of the platform's other offerings, no one will make the argument that you must see this perfectly OK film on the big screen.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 30, 2019

John Lee Hancock's intentions are honored and pure, but the celebrity commentaries and aimed cinematic crosshairs miss a more significant mark of meaty execution.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | May 28, 2019