In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
Bonnie and Clyde don't really know that killing kills. The film does -- unlike the run of movies about violence now, which mostly know that killing sells.
– Penelope Gilliatt,
New Yorker,
14 Jan 2013
fresh:
Bonnie and Clyde is the most excitingly American American movie since The Manchurian Candidate. The audience is alive to it.
– Pauline Kael,
New Yorker,
30 Aug 2012
fresh:
Considered New Hollywood's moment of arrival, tipping square critic Bosley Crowther into retirement (The New York Times, they were a-changin').
– Nick Pinkerton,
Village Voice,
12 Nov 2008
fresh:
It's by far the least controlled of Penn's films... but the pieces work wonderfully well, propelled by what was then a very original acting style.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
2 Jul 2007
rotten:
This inconsistency of direction is the most obvious fault of Bonnie and Clyde, which has some good ingredients, although they are not meshed together well.