Drugstore Cowboy is one of the best films in the long tradition of American outlaw road movies - a tradition that includes "Bonnie and Clyde," "Easy Rider," "Midnight Cowboy" and "Badlands."Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Hal Hinson
Van Sant gives his material shape and an invigorating, syncopated style. It keeps coming at you in surprising, dazzling ways.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Sheila Benson
Drugstore Cowboy, an electrifying movie without one misstep or one conventional moment. [11 Oct 1989]Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Jay Carr
Drugstore Cowboy, Gus Van Sant's fresh, gutsy societal underbelly film, never wallows in picturesque down-and-outism, except at the end, when Dillon's character, frightened by the death of a girl he didn't like much and spooked by his own paranoiac suspicion, checks into a seedy hotel while trying to go cold turkey and not yield to the influence of a junkie priest drolly played by William Burroughs. [27 Oct 1989]Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Howe
Neither federally admonishing nor irresponsibly romantic, Cowboy stays high without being highhanded.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
Drugstore Cowboy, Gus Van Sant Jr.'s glum, absorbing film about a clan of heroin addicts who travel around the Pacific Northwest Looting pharmacies of their supplies the way Bonnie and Clyde cleaned out banks, gives Matt Dillon the role of his career.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
A daring movie in today's current climate - one likely to be remembered at year's end. [18 Oct 1989]Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Drugstore Cowboy improves. Not much, but in provocative ways.Read Full Review »
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