Outrageously overrated at the cynical end of the Swinging Sixties.
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06/24/06
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:43
Rotten:5
Average Rating:8.3/10
Consensus: John Schlesinger's gritty, unrelentingly bleak look at the seedy underbelly of urban American life is undeniably disturbing, but Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight's performances make it difficult to turn away.
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Joe Buck (Jon Voight), an aspiring male prostitute from Texas, heads to Manhattan where he hopes to find plenty of wealthy women willing to pay for the services of a handsome man. When he arrives,... [More]
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, Brenda Vaccaro
Director: John Schlesinger
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Reviews for Midnight Cowboy
Sometimes a time capsule never dates.
02/19/06
This multi-Oscar-winner nails its characters, time period, and locale so perfectly that it becomes even more compelling as time goes by.
01/01/00
It only takes a movie like Midnight Cowboy to point out the limitations of a rating system: How can a measly four stars convey the magnificence of this acknowledged classic?
03/10/06
It is ultimately a moving experience that captures the quality of a time and a place. It's not a movie for the ages, but, having seen it, you won't ever again feel detached as you walk down West 42nd Street.
05/20/03
Top CriticMidnight Cowboy (1969) is an ultra-realistic film (shot on location) with sordid, downbeat and serious content. It portrays the unlikely companionship
01/01/00
What has happened to Midnight Cowboy is that we've done our own editing job on it. We've forgotten the excesses and the detours, and remembered the purity of the central characters and the Voight and Hoffman performances.
10/23/04
Top CriticAn impressive and enduring evocation of time and place, this is a moving low-life drama built around Oscar-winning writing and performances.
01/30/08
I appreciate the performances by Jon Voight, as Joe Buck, and Dustin Hoffman, as Enrico 'Ratso' Rizzo, as well as their relationship.
01/01/00
Hoffman gives a performance as 'Ratzo' Rizzo that stands as the finest in an extraordinary career.
01/01/00
A buddy movie of rather unlikely characters falling into a rather forced friendship.
01/01/00
The acting, showy and instinctual, is most of the movie; the visual style is too forced and chicly distended to let the drama acquire much natural life of its own.
12/13/06
Top CriticWhat is most amazing about the film is its refusal to age.
02/27/01
Definitely a film to see.
09/10/02
In this film the scenery is lovely and only the human race is vile.
01/30/08
Top CriticSchlesinger's frenzied style and visual pyrotechnicas (New Wave influence) are less impressive than the characters, the central friendship, the awakening of conscience in Joe Buck and Ratso, and Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman's superlative acting.
12/14/05
Great performances from Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman cap this bravest Academy Awards Best Picture choice in history.
12/02/06
A maverick effort.
07/25/04
The movie is locked into a sixties stylistic approach that can feel dated, but Hoffman’s performance can prevent one from ever tiring of the film.
01/30/08
One of the more overrated films of modern 'hip' times.
01/31/04
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