The Kid
Lionsgate | Release Date: March 8, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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6
Mixed:
7
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinMar 7, 2019
Absorbing, well-structured and superbly acted. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMar 7, 2019
First-time director D’Onofrio has as an admirable visual style, whether we get medium-long-shot takes or intimate close-ups. This is a good-looking period piece film, percolating with top-tier performances. Read full review
70
VarietyJoe LeydonMar 8, 2019
A consistently involving and often exciting drama in which the two Wild West icons are presented from the p.o.v. of an impressionable adolescent who weighs the pros and cons of each man as a role model. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeMar 7, 2019
The result is very pleasing, even for moviegoers who don't pine for the Western's return, and represents a big step forward in the directing career of D'Onofrio. Read full review
67
The Film StageJared MobarakMar 7, 2019
We’re allowed a peek behind the scenes to witness the emotional toll this lifestyle wrought and realize that what we do is sometimes secondary to what we learn. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreMar 6, 2019
I cannot get over how satisfying it is to see Chris Pratt as the heavy. Read full review
50
The Associated PressJocelyn NoveckApr 9, 2019
Hawke takes a fairly one-dimensional character and gives it an intelligent and shaded performance. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenMar 9, 2019
Pratt delightfully plays against type here as a fierce bully, and Hawke looks as though he were born to wear spurs and a badge. Read full review
50
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenMar 7, 2019
There’s gunplay aplenty here, but nothing about “The Kid” sets it apart from the many Billy the Kid movies that have preceded it. Read full review
50
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMar 7, 2019
A diverting Western that’s almost worth seeing for the unsaddled performances that director Vincent D’Onofrio gets from his cast, The Kid only makes a few small adjustments to the dustiest of American genres, but these errant wrinkles — a far cry from any serious revisionism — provide much of the fun. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMar 8, 2019
It succeeds sporadically as a corrective anti-myth, but as a story about people, it fails to come to life. Read full review
40
TheWrapTodd GilchristMar 8, 2019
The Kid simultaneously wants to humanize and mythologize its cowboys — and neither effort works. Read full review
40
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMar 7, 2019
Set in the American Southwest in 1879, The Kid feels less like an actual movie than a table-napkin idea for one. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comArielle BernsteinMar 8, 2019
By the end of the film, we don’t really gain any new moral clarity about what it means to confront a world where might makes right, and we are left with the discomforting idea that the only thing ultimately protecting women from violence is a good man with a gun. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineKeith WatsonMar 8, 2019
Its scenes wildly escalate to a fever pitch at the drop of a hat, before then ending, more often than not, with abrupt violence. Read full review
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