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Too derivative of other Roger Corman crime pictures to stand out, Boxcar Bertha feels more like a training exercise for a fledgling Martin Scorsese than a fully formed picture in its own right.
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The Roger Corman production, shot on an austere budget in Arkansas area, is routinely directed by Martin Scorsese. Mar 31, 2008 | Full Review…
The Roger Corman production, shot on an austere budget in Arkansas area, is routinely directed by Martin Scorsese.
Variety Staff
While there is a striking similarity [to Bonnie and Clyde] in general content, background, fine color photography and even the use of hillbilly music, the new, more modest film stands curiously on its own. May 9, 2005 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
While there is a striking similarity [to Bonnie and Clyde] in general content, background, fine color photography and even the use of hillbilly music, the new, more modest film stands curiously on its own.
Howard Thompson
Scorsese remains one of the bright young hopes of American movies. Oct 23, 2004 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Scorsese remains one of the bright young hopes of American movies.
Roger Ebert
'Promising juvenilia' is about the most one can say for it. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
'Promising juvenilia' is about the most one can say for it.
Dave Kehr
Boxcar Bertha is filled with recognizably Scorsese touches. Nov 1, 2019 | Full Review…
Boxcar Bertha is filled with recognizably Scorsese touches.
Keith Phipps
[Martin] Scorsese was anxious to show his chops on a real Hollywood feature and does so admirably (if impersonally) with rough-and-ready style on a mix of true story and exploitation drama. Jan 13, 2017 | Full Review…
[Martin] Scorsese was anxious to show his chops on a real Hollywood feature and does so admirably (if impersonally) with rough-and-ready style on a mix of true story and exploitation drama.
Sean Axmaker
Lots of violence, typical of the Corman exploitation mill, but the film still shows the budding talent of Scorsese in his use of moving-camera and period detail. Mar 31, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Lots of violence, typical of the Corman exploitation mill, but the film still shows the budding talent of Scorsese in his use of moving-camera and period detail.
Scorsese's second film is one of his weakest, a violent impersonal work that feels like an extension of such rural crime-gangsters features as the exploitation flick Bloody Mama or the arty and better one Bonnie and Clyde. Feb 22, 2008 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Scorsese's second film is one of his weakest, a violent impersonal work that feels like an extension of such rural crime-gangsters features as the exploitation flick Bloody Mama or the arty and better one Bonnie and Clyde.
Emanuel Levy
Part exploitation movie, part visionary cinema, Boxcar Bertha is caught somewhere in between both. Jul 29, 2006 | Full Review…
Part exploitation movie, part visionary cinema, Boxcar Bertha is caught somewhere in between both.
Ryan Cracknell
Scorsese hadn't developed a personal vision yet, but a few moments during the heat of battle reveal a lively, playful camera. Not to mention the on-target performances by Hershey and her co-stars David Carradine, Barry Primus and Bernie Casey. May 26, 2006 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Scorsese hadn't developed a personal vision yet, but a few moments during the heat of battle reveal a lively, playful camera. Not to mention the on-target performances by Hershey and her co-stars David Carradine, Barry Primus and Bernie Casey.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
...an often interminable experience. Mar 18, 2005 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
...an often interminable experience.
David Nusair
Although a Martin Scorsese retrospective could easily survive its absence, Boxcar Bertha is a cornerstone of the director's filmography Feb 6, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Although a Martin Scorsese retrospective could easily survive its absence, Boxcar Bertha is a cornerstone of the director's filmography
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