Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Reviews
Combustible Celluloid
Regardless of length, this is one of Peckinpah's most deeply-felt films, a true meeting of two like souls.
Urban Cinefile
It's one of the great tragic true stories of the old wild West, the story of two outlaw friends ending up enemies as one turns over and becomes a lawman - expressly for the purpose of hunting down his friend.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Bitter take take on the mythical Old West.
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| Original Score: A-
Antagony & Ecstasy
One of the most bittersweet films of Peckinpah's career.
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| Original Score: 8/10
culturevulture.net
...it could've %u2014 should've %u2014 been [Peckinpah's] third or fourth masterpiece (that depends on who's doing the counting), and the movie he'd been building towards his entire career.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
The film is visually stunning, and Peckinpah makes great use of his Durango, Mexico, locations.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Top CriticA richer, more rewarding experience.
| Original Score: B+
The mushy pretensions of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid suggest either that [Peckinpah] has begun to take talk about his genius too seriously (it can happen to the best) or that he has fallen in with bad company.
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| Original Score: 2/5
It's a movie that exists almost entirely on one note -- a low, melancholy one -- and achieves what I thought would have been impossible for him Peckinpah: he's boring.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Austin Chronicle
Some Peckinpah devotees consider the film among his finest work, others regard it as, well, troubled. Fascinating, nonetheless.
Filmcritic.com
Sam Peckinpah's virtually unseen Western turns out to be unseen for a reason.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
