Scarecrow
Warner Bros | Release Date: April 11, 1973 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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100
Slant MagazineBudd Wilkins
Scarecrow embraces sprawl of both the narrative and geographical variety with freewheeling abandon. Read full review
100
The GuardianPeter Bradshaw
This is a jewel of American cinema. Read full review
80
Time OutKeith Uhlich
Hollywood movies have rarely spoken such tough and tender truths. Read full review
80
Total FilmTom Dawson
It’s strong on the details of itinerant life, and allows plotting to take a back seat to character. Read full review
80
Time Out LondonDave Calhoun
Scarecrow’ feels like an existential fairytale squarely rooted in the reality of America’s fraying backroads and small towns. It’s all a little rambling and anarchic, but later scenes in a jail have real bite. And when the sadness behind Lion’s smile is revealed, it’s also genuinely moving. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
it is a well-acted movie and for long stretches we're hoping it will work. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAlan Scherstuhl
A flawed, fascinating testament to a time of discovery in Hollywood: of how stories could be told onscreen, of what great actors might find within themselves, of just what in the hell this country had become in the late-'60s crackup. Read full review
50
The New York TimesVincent Canby
It all goes decisively wrong when Jerry Schatzberg, the director, and Garry Michael White, who wrote the screenplay, decide to saddle the pair with a poetic vision that suddenly makes everything needlessly phony. Read full review
40
VarietyStaff [Not Credited]
Scarecrow is a periodically interesting but ultimately unsatisfying character study of two modern drifters. Read full review
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