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The Sugarland Express Reviews
A highly winning entertainment.
| 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
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
It may turn out to be one of the best movies of the year.
| Apr 20, 2021
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
The pace falters near the end, but overall this is a brilliantly calculated audience pleaser.
| Jun 24, 2016
Unfortunately, the film degenerates in final reels to heavy-handed social polemic and sound-and-fury shootout.
| Feb 20, 2009
A beautifully put together, assured film.
| Feb 9, 2006
One of the most purely fun and slyly political films Spielberg has ever made. One of Hawn's best performances.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 22, 2005
If the movie finally doesn't succeed, that's because Spielberg has paid too much attention to all those police cars (and all the crashes they get into), and not enough to the personalities of his characters.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 23, 2004
Masterful command of atmosphere and tone, great, understated performances.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 13, 2003
The movie has a casual craziness that seems especially native.
| Original Score: 3/5 | May 21, 2003
With this first theatrical feature, Steven Spielberg proved he had the right stuff to become America's purest and most accomplished film entertainer.
| Mar 10, 2003
Unheralded Spielberg masterpiece.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 1, 2000