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Badlands (1973) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Badlands (1973) a score of 3.1277 out of 4

based on (48) reviews

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ToxicUniverse.com (Mike Bracken)

At any rate, Badlands is a solidly constructed film that�s aged rather well over the last 25 years. Spacek and...read the complete Badlands (1973) review at ToxicUniverse.com (Mike Bracken)

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San Francisco Examiner (Barbara Shulgasser)

WHEN TERRENCE Malick's first film, "Badlands," came out in 1973 many critics lauded the effort. Although the plot, based on a true story about a killing spree of a young couple, had been done many times - "Thieves Like Us" and "The Sugarland Express,"...read the complete Badlands (1973) review at San Francisco Examiner (Barbara Shulgasser)

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Senses of Cinema (Adrian Danks)

Badlands (1973) is undoubtedly one of the great first films of the cinema, and it is also one of the most influential works of the early 1970s, a golden period of American filmmaking. It documents a short killing spree carried out by a young couple,...read the complete Badlands (1973) review at Senses of Cinema (Adrian Danks)