Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: May 23, 1973 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
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Mixed or average reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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80
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
Like Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, it both records and condemns the passage of time and the advent of progress; and there is a sombre, mournful quality which places the film very high up in the league of great Westerns. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
The film is visually stunning, and Peckinpah makes great use of his Durango, Mexico, locations. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
A dry, dour film where the moments of poetic Americana barely cohere. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The movie fails to work up much excitement, and the title song by Bob Dylan is quite simply awful. Read full review
50
The New York TimesVincent Canby
Pat Garrett and Billy the kid suggest either that he (Peckinpah) has begun to take talk about his genius too seriously (it can happen to the best) or that he has fallen in with bad company. Read full review
50
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Coburn offers more of his smiles as testimony to the wizardry of Old West dentistry, while Kristofferson ambles through his role with solid charm. Neither conveys the psychological tension felt between the two men whose lives diverge after years of camaraderie. Read full review
50
The New YorkerPauline Kael
Probably nobody involved was very happy about the results; Dylan doesn't come off at all.
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