They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Cinerama Releasing Corporation | Release Date: December 10, 1969 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
RogerEbert.comRoger Ebert
The movie's delicately timed pacing and Pollack's visual style work almost stealthily to involve us; we begin to feel the physical weariness and spiritual desperation of the characters. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubScott MacDonald
The movie is so unrelievedly pessimistic that only the most dedicated misanthrope could love it. But there’s something oddly bracing—noble, even—about a Hollywood picture that’s willing to say, without even a hint of soft-pedaling, that life isn’t worth living, and that it’s squalid, unfair, and disappointing. Read full review
80
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
A suitably glum yet cathartic film experience. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Bleak but exquisitely fashioned microcosm of American life during the Depression. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
The material is simple and irresistible, and Sydney Pollack stages it well (though without transcending the essential superficiality of his talent). Read full review
70
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
A film with Jane Fonda as a hard-as-nails babe. It becomes, in a recreated old ballroom, a sordid spectacle of hard times, a kind of existentialist allegory of life. Read full review
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