Bonnie & Clyde
Lifetime | A&E | History | Lifetime/A&E/History | Release Date: December 8, 2013
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54
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Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
13
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
USA TodayRobert BiancoDec 6, 2013
Season 1 Review: It understands that its first job is to make us believe in Bonnie and Clyde and commit to their story. And that it does, perhaps not brilliantly, but well. Read full review
75
Uncle BarkyEd BarkDec 5, 2013
Season 1 Review: This elongated version makes its own mark, although certainly not an indelible one. Read full review
70
Miami HeraldGlenn GarvinDec 9, 2013
Season 1 Review: This Bonnie & Clyde, taken on its own terms, is a perfectly entertaining gangster picture, not to mention an interesting experiment in its simultaneous propagation and subversion of feminist doctrine. Read full review
70
Boston GlobeSarah RodmanDec 5, 2013
Season 1 Review: Both Hirsch and Grainger do a creditable job of getting into the skin of their complicated characters.... The supporting cast is filled with familiar faces doing competent work with a short amount of screen time and a sometimes programmatic script. Read full review
67
NewsdayVerne GayDec 5, 2013
Season 1 Review: Bonnie & Clyde really is just another biopic with superior production values, a few good performances and a pair of protagonists who deserve no sympathy, and receive none here. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyMelissa MaerzDec 2, 2013
Season 1 Review: It's mildly entertaining, but Outlaw TV it ain't. Read full review
63
New York PostMichael StarrDec 6, 2013
Season 1 Review: There are some artsy shots underscoring Clyde’s premonitions and Bonnie’s obsession with a music-box ballerina, but they’re throwaways at best and lend absolutely nothing to the saga.... The performances here are fine. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklDec 5, 2013
Season 1 Review: Bonnie’s panic attacks and Clyde’s crystal-ball premonitions add hokeyness to an otherwise decent drama, whose biggest crime is being stretched over two nights instead of one. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanDec 6, 2013
Season 1 Review: It's a testament to Hirsch, who keeps Bonnie and Clyde grounded--plus a solid script, for the most part--that allows this movie to defy the odds. That doesn't make it great or even necessary, but wow, it could have been a lot worse. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushDec 6, 2013
Season 1 Review: This much more conventional biopic is a grittier, drabber journey from crime-spree joyride to high-stakes manhunt as their crimes and the ensuing fallout escalate in grim intensity. Read full review
50
Cleveland Plain DealerMark DawidziakJan 10, 2014
Season 1 Review: There are, to be sure, many memorable moments along the way to Monday's second half, but this is one of those padded two-parters that easily could have been trimmed to three hours and aired one night instead of two. And most of the padding is in Sunday's first half. Read full review
50
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardDec 9, 2013
Season 1 Review: Bonnie & Clyde? More like Hokum and Bunk. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraDec 9, 2013
Season 1 Review: Neither [Hirsch and Granger] offer any insight into what drove the couple, what they actually hoped to achieve, and what kept them going when it became clear that things were not going to end well. And History might have a little soul-searching to do; dramatic license should not mean Make a Huge Number of Important Plot Points Up. Read full review
50
Kansas City StarSara SmithDec 6, 2013
Season 1 Review: Holliday Grainger and Emile Hirsch are pretty great as Bonnie and Clyde, despite a just-servicable script to explain how Clyde won Bonnie’s anxiety-ridden, artistic heart. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubPhil Dyess-NugentDec 6, 2013
Season 1 Review: Those seeking entertainment would be better off watching the movie, which will give them a rousing American story in half the time. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalNancy DeWolf SmithDec 5, 2013
Season 1 Review: The miniseries itself never quite reaches dramatic liftoff. Could be the know-how-it-ends curse of biopics at work. Or perhaps it's because it is so difficult to spare time and emotion for a couple of punks. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian LowryDec 5, 2013
Season 1 Review: The movie settles for a rather dutiful tick-tock of episodes and shootouts, counting down toward the inevitable with plenty of on-air script indicating the time and place before each event. Read full review
50
The New York TimesMike HaleDec 5, 2013
Season 1 Review: Bonnie & Clyde is thoroughly inoffensive and resolutely middle-of-the-road, a big slab of a story about a doomed love affair between two nice, good-looking kids who had some really bad luck. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandDec 4, 2013
Season 1 Review: The script is workmanlike rather than inspired or in any way profound. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyDec 6, 2013
Season 1 Review: Numerous scenes reiterate what we knew, and side touches like Bonnie’s recurring ballerina fantasies don’t need the time they’re given. Read full review
40
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayDec 6, 2013
Season 1 Review: It's probably not a good sign that by Monday's installment I was nearly as eager to see the Barrow Gang's spree end as Hurt's character was, even knowing it was bound to be far from pretty. Read full review
30
SlateWilla PaskinDec 6, 2013
Season 1 Review: It’s an uninspired melding of Lifetime movie and biopic, with none of the virtues of a Lifetime movie (not campy enough) and none of the virtues of a biopic (it is egregiously fictionalized). Read full review
10
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzDec 6, 2013
Season 1 Review: This miniseries is terrible, as close to a complete waste of time as I've encountered in my two years of writing for this publication. Read full review
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