The Newton Boys

Name: The Newton Boys
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Crime, Western
Released: March 27, 1998
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 57
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Vincent D'Onofrio

1998

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: March 27, 1998 | PG-13

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Vincent D'Onofrio

Summary: The true story of America?s most successful bank robbing family. (20th Century Fox)

Director: Richard Linklater

Genre(s): Action, Drama, History, Crime, Western

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 113 min

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Not to be hyperbolic, but Richard Linklater's first big-budget movie may be the Jules and Jim of bank-robber movies, thanks to its astonishing handling of period detail and its gentleness of spirit, both buoyed by a gliding lightness of touch. Read full review

James Berardinelli

A fast-paced, entertaining motion picture that replaces gritty tension with a lightly-dramatic character interaction that occasionally borders on straight comedy. Read full review

Janet Maslin

If Mr. Linklater is not entirely at ease with action sequences (or with the obligatory having-fun montage once the brothers become successful), he still makes this (after ''Before Sunrise'' and ''Suburbia'') another admirable directorial stretch. Read full review

Peter Stack

Director Richard Linklater ("Dazed and Confused") should have taken a cue from the music -- the film needs a lot more snap. Read full review

Roger Ebert

The film chronicles their criminal career in a low-key, meandering way; we're hanging out with them more than we're being told a story. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

In his true-life film about four brothers who robbed banks out West during the late teens and early '20s, Richard Linklater seems to achieve the impossible: He makes Ethan Hawke bearable. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Scored to a disarmingly quaint array of fiddle-and-banjo tunes, The Newton Boys has so little in the way of blood or rancor that before long, you begin to notice that there's no real drama in it, either. Read full review

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Mar 4, 2021

This is a great film. This is a great film. This is a great film. This is a great film.

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