...less about the wheels on the asphalt and more about the headspace that driving can put you in.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 4, 2021

A piece of utterly original art-house Americana utterly unlike anything before or after.

| Jul 11, 2021

...an arty yet earthy road movie that sits neatly in the slipstream of Easy Rider and Vanishing Point...

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 14, 2021

Heilman's heroes remain insulated from us by their own failures to feel. We are part of the world they pass through invisibly -- and so they remain as foreign and opaque as ever.

| Feb 12, 2020

Two-Lane provides a script to match [Oates] and he gives what is simply one of the year's most memorable performances.

| Jan 10, 2020

[It] remains a vital piece of filmmaking

| Sep 15, 2013

It came nowhere close to the numbers on Easy Rider, but it is so much more worthwhile as a film. Indeed, I'm going to push my luck and say there has never been a better film about sweaters.

| Jun 20, 2013

The ultimate road movie and one of the great American movies of the 1970s.

| Feb 25, 2013

As a study in obsession and emotional dislocation Two-Lane Blacktop is in a class of its own.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 25, 2013

"Two-Lane Blacktop" prompts a dialogue of uncertain expectation with its audience.

| Original Score: A | Feb 23, 2013

... a quiet, existential masterpiece that has turned into a bonafide cult classic.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 25, 2013

Captures an aura of existential despondence that's married to a far less evocative (and durable) strain of counterculture romantic doom.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 19, 2011

Much more about the journey and the thrill of being a racer as it is about races...

| Aug 1, 2010

What Two-Lane Blacktop pronounces in its visuals, limited dialogue, and willfully underdeveloped characters remains largely superficial, yet its silence and patience indicate much depth.

| Oct 18, 2008

Perhaps director Monte Hellman's finest film.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 13, 2007

Two-Lane Blacktop is a movie of achingly eloquent landscapes and absurdly inert characters.

Full Review | Dec 13, 2007

The strange and sometimes pathetic world of barnstorming, hustling street-racing is explored with feeling by director-editor Monte Hellman.

| Dec 13, 2007

This exciting existentialist road movie by Monte Hellman, with a swell script by Rudolph Wurlitzer and Will Corry and my favorite Warren Oates performance, looks even better now than it did in 1971.

| Dec 13, 2007

Oates gives a compelling performance and musicians Taylor and Wilson supply the right degree of drifter cool.

| Aug 25, 2007

This is not a film about narrative but loneliness and life on the road, which it captures with a mysterious brilliance.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 5, 2007