Made before Spielberg became a thousand-pound gorilla, "Sugarland" is pleasantly small and unassuming.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 29, 2022

The Sugarland Express has become something of a cult classic mainly because of Steven Spielberg making it his first theatrical release.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 23, 2022

Clearly, in Spielberg’s vision of cops and robbers, everyone is an average person, with reasonable motives and expectations and inclinations toward forgiveness, even when circumstances tend to demand more outrageous reactions.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 22, 2022

One is apt to fear for the second film of a promising young director, but for once anxiety was unnecessary. The Sugarland Express is okay; a bit too long... but generally balanced, accomplished, satisfying.

| Aug 8, 2022

A highly winning entertainment.

| Apr 20, 2021

A work of depth and dimension.

| Apr 20, 2021

It is astonishing to contemplate all that director Steven Spielberg and his writers Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins, all of them in their theatrical feature debuts, have managed to accomplish.

| Apr 20, 2021

Engrossing to watch, it begins to work on you, to declare its claim to greatness, after a while. You'll see.

| Apr 20, 2021

A truly delightful and entertaining picture.

| Apr 20, 2021

As vigorously entertaining as any film we've had this year.

| Apr 20, 2021

The picture stops being fun and becomes a slowly developing horror story, moving to an eventual and unrealistic climax with the stolidity and the implacable power of a glacier.

| Apr 20, 2021

The enjoyment in the film comes from the characters, and the actors as they developed them.

| Apr 20, 2021

It may turn out to be one of the best movies of the year.

| Apr 20, 2021

[The Sugarland Express] has a certain cinematic knack, but is all effect and no real humanity, all manipulation and splash, and no attempt at honest insight.

| Jul 28, 2020

It is a decent road movie, which falls for the most trivial melodramatic exposition that Spielberg uses to synthesize the meaning of sacrifice from the perspective of the American family. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 15, 2020

Spielberg's eye for detail is stated visually rather than through dialogue and the film offers many accurate vignettes of America's obsession with "heroes" and heroism.

| Apr 2, 2020

Spielberg is a talented director who knows how to dazzle with fancy filmwork. His cast is an attractive one. The problem here is the script.

| Dec 16, 2019

A brilliant film from the young Steven Spielberg who was just beginning his career. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 14, 2019

The pace falters near the end, but overall this is a brilliantly calculated audience pleaser.

| Jun 24, 2016

With this role, Hawn further proves she was an actress of some talent and not just an attractive woman to be taken lightly.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 24, 2016