Nominated for 2 Oscars. 8 wins & 14 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Hopper, Fonda and their friends went out into America looking for a movie and found instead a small, pious statement (upper case) about our society (upper case), which is sick (upper case). It's pretty but lower case cinema.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
rotten:
The film may be a relic now, but it is a fascinating souvenir -- particularly in its narcissism and fatalism -- of how the hippie movement thought of itself.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
26 Jun 2007
fresh:
None of the forced violence, lawlessness, rapist, gratuitous speed aspects of the motorbike clan in this perceptive film.
– Gene Moskowitz,
Variety,
26 Jun 2007
rotten:
A film important to and influential in the flower-power late '60s, Easy Rider now seems like a narcissistic hodgepodge of travelogue and passion play.
– Keith Uhlich,
Time Out New York,
30 Apr 2009
fresh:
Fonda and Hopper, it should by this time go without saying, give immense performances.