The Boston Phoenix
Review from issue: April 23 - 30, 1998

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4 stars

Bonnie & Clyde

(1967; screens Thursday at 4:45 p.m.)

Bonnie Clyde Burlesque segues to horror in Arthur Penn's film about Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) and Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway), the Depression bank robbers who enjoyed a scandalous popularity. Thirty years later Bonnie and Clyde are prescient foreshadows of media-obsessed gangsta types. With its charismatic supporting cast -- Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Gene Wilder, Michael J. Pollard -- this could well be the best movie made by an American in the '60s.
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