This has far, far too many soliloquies... The material itself isn't worthy of it.

| Sep 20, 2019

First-time director D'Onofrio has as an admirable visual style, whether we get medium-long-shot takes or intimate close-ups. This is a good-looking period piece film, percolating with top-tier performances.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 8, 2019

It succeeds sporadically as a corrective anti-myth, but as a story about people, it fails to come to life.

| Mar 8, 2019

"The Kid" manages some picturesque shots of Western landscapes, and Hawke, who has hit a career stride in recent years, wouldn't know how to turn in a bad performance if he tried. But there's not enough here to make this journey worth taking.

| Original Score: C | Mar 8, 2019

Simultaneously wants to humanize and mythologize its cowboys - and neither effort works.

| Mar 8, 2019

This relegation of female characters to the sidelines is depressing for a film released in 2019, especially because it seems entirely possible to have a film looking at masculinity without reducing women to archetypes.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 8, 2019

Its scenes wildly escalate to a fever pitch at the drop of a hat, before then ending, more often than not, with abrupt violence.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 8, 2019

The script is laden with painfully outdated representations and vacillates between snooze-inducing speechifying and bare-bones storytelling that doesn't elucidate a damn thing

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 8, 2019

Ethan Hawke and Dane DeHaan ride tall in Vincent D'Onofrio's fresh take on the saga of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

| Mar 8, 2019

Check out "The Kid" for some pleasant entertainment.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 8, 2019

[An] absorbing, well-structured and superbly acted movie.

| Mar 7, 2019

"The Kid" often struggles to find its footing.

| Original Score: C | Mar 7, 2019

"The Kid" feels less like an actual movie than a table-napkin idea for one.

| Mar 7, 2019

An enjoyable and finely acted take on an oft-told story.

| Mar 7, 2019

There's gunplay aplenty, but nothing about "The Kid" sets it apart from the many Billy movies that have preceded it.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 6, 2019