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Badlands

1973

Terrence Malick

Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri ...

7.3

12,857

Drama 1959. Kit Carruthers, a young garbage collector and his 15 years-old girlfriend Holly Sargis from Fort Dupree, South Dakota, are on the run after killing Holly's father who disagreed with their relationship. On their way towards the Badlands of Montana they leave a trail of dispassionate and seemingly random murders.

	Media	Author	Review
		Variety	"'Badlands' is a uniquely American fairy tale (...) It's an impressive debut"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"There are no symbols to note or lessons to learn. What comes through more than anything is the enormous loneliness of the lives these two characters lived, together and apart (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"One may legitimately debate the validity of Malick's vision, but not, I think, his immense talent. 'Badlands' is a most important and exciting film"
		Wally Hammond Time Out	"'Badlands' is as psychologically precise as it is splendidly visually observant. But it also exudes a timeless, mythical and tragic quality (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"A film so rich in ideas it hardly knows where to turn"
		Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"Watching it, you sense that Malick finds his outlaw lovers beautiful and terrible, pathetic and monstrous, funny and overwhelmingly sad"
		Scott Tobias AV Club	"Malick displays the unique sensitivity to his character’s inner life (...) that has made him a singular filmmaker. His visual poetry has the effect of extracting the pulp while heightening the horror."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An unmissable, transcendentally beautiful classic (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Rob Fraser Empire	"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 (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		David Gritten Telegraph	"Why does it work? Partly because of an intriguing contrast: between the lovely landscape (exquisitely framed by Malick) through which these young lovers wander, and the homicidal ugliness of their actions."

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