Thunderbolt and Lightfoot remains a major achievement for Eastwood, Bridges, and Cimino. It deserves to be more than a cult curiosity.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 27, 2024

This light-hearted yet poignant buddy movie is very much in the style of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)...

| Mar 21, 2023

...a criminals-on-the-road movie that shifts toward a dazzlingly elaborate and painfully realistic heist tale.

| Apr 14, 2020

Both Kennedy and Lewis turn in colorful performances, but it's Eastwood and Bridges' film, and their ill-defined, tender friendship makes the movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2015

Debuting director Michael Cimino obtains superior performances from Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis and especially Jeff Bridges.

| May 6, 2008

Eastwood is in good, if not great form, Bridges steals the whole show, and Cimino displays a sense of unpretentious fun and appealing grasp of character that should have held him in good stead for a lengthy career. It didn't.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2008

The likeable result, made for and with the personnel of Eastwood's Malpaso Company, looks like a throwaway Eastwood vehicle.

| Jun 24, 2006

The Eastwood team has pulled off a modest enjoyable winner.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 9, 2005

Cimino was already making an aesthetic of inarticulateness, and the film is by turns surly, incoherent, and provocatively mysterious.

| Jan 1, 2000