A dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award4 wins & 1 nomination total
Top Critics Reviews
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Among the great American crime movies, 1973's Badlands stands alone.
– Peter Stack,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Jan 2000
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Written, produced and directed by Terrence Malick, pic is his first feature and it's an impressive debut.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
16 May 2008
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This first, magnificent, outpouring of the sporadic genius of cinema's equivalent to JD Salinger, Terrence Malick, still seems terrifically modern.
– Wally Hammond,
Time Out,
29 Aug 2008
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Days of Heaven put Terrence Malick's intuitions into cogent form, but this is where his art begins.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
8 Feb 2010
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In the fall of 1973, one could see signposts of cinema's future in Mean Streets and The Exorcist, yet with this youthful pair of proto-indie dreamers, Malick was paving a whole new road. It turned out to be the path most traveled.