A Boy and His Dog
LQ/JAF | Release Date: November 14, 1975 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Entertainment WeeklyJ.R. Taylor
Though the film may not have one decent character, A Boy and His Dog (rereleased after a six-year moratorium) manages to be a likable celebration of friendship among the ruins. Read full review
91
Entertainment WeeklySteve Simels
Jones directed and scripted this mordant sci-fi comedy from a novella by Harlan Ellison; the satire gets a trifle woozy in the picture’s last third, but the film is redeemed by one of the great bad-taste endings of recent cinema. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
A Boy and His Dog is an unruly daydream capped with a surprisingly jet-black acknowledgment of humankind’s genetic destiny to ruin itself. Read full review
83
IndieWireEmily Buder
A Boy and His Dog is worth seeing if only just for the bizarre turns of phrase tossed around between the rag-tag pair. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Adapted from an award-winning novella by science-fiction writer Harlan Ellison, A Boy And His Dog has won a cult following of its own for its offbeat, sardonic look into the future. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It's got a unique . . . well, I was about to say charm, but the movie's last scene doesn't quite let me get away with that. Read full review
60
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
What lifts things right out of the rut is the cynical commentary provided by the hero's dog, communicating telepathically (in voice-off admirably spoken by Tim McIntire) and kicking the daylights out of all those boy-and-his-dog yarns. Read full review
60
EmpireKim Newman
The execution doesn't quite enliven the premise, but there's still enough enjoyably offbeat moments here to make this one worth digging up. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
A Boy and His Dog lacks the density of a Peckinpah film—in spite of some clever ideas and a few well-wrought images, it seems too schematic and its satire too blunt. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineEric Henderson
The film is riddled with an unmistakably misogynistic bent, and can’t be bothered to supply one single likable soul. Read full review
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