The superb performances from Sheen and Spacek are as memorable as Malick’s vision of something akin to hell.
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08/29/08
Badlands (1973)
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Reviews Counted: 34
Fresh: 34
Rotten:0
Average Rating: 8.9/10
Consensus: Gorgeous and troubling, with outstanding performances from Sheen and Spacek. Terrence Malicks masterful debut.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Terrence Malick's startlingly accomplished debut feature was inspired by the Charles Starkweather and Caril-Ann Fugate murders of the late-1950s. Martin Sheen plays Kit, a 25-year-old garbageman who walks with a James Dean swagger.... [More]
Starring: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri
Director: Terrence Malick
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Reviews for Badlands
The unique, lilting music would subsequently crop up in True Romance, though Tarantino’s generation has yet to dethrone Badlands as the most haunting of all couple-on-the-run movies.
08/29/08
Top Critic An unmissable reissue for Terrence Malick's gorgeous and troubling debut.
08/29/08
Terrence Malick’s thriller Badlands (1973), is rightly revered as one of the most astonishing debuts in cinema. Its reissue is a wonderful chance to discover why.
08/29/08
This first, magnificent, outpouring of the sporadic genius of cinema’s equivalent to JD Salinger, Terrence Malick, still seems terrifically modern.
08/29/08
Achingly evocative of a time when Hollywood had the courage to invest in complex and morally ambiguous films and an indisputable masterpiece of American cinema.
08/29/08
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05/16/08
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Bonnie and Clyde without the Freud, but with a darker, more incomprehensible underbelly.
03/04/06
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01/26/06
Top Critic Like Bonnie and Clyde, Badlands could be seen as a poetic ballad or folktale, but unlike that film, it doesn't romanticize its protags, instead using distancing devices such as Sissy Spacek's affectless narration.
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