Badlands 1974

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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Days of Heaven put Terrence Malick's intuitions into cogent form, but this is where his art begins. Read more

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Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle: Among the great American crime movies, 1973's Badlands stands alone. Read more

Wally Hammond, Time Out: This first, magnificent, outpouring of the sporadic genius of cinema's equivalent to JD Salinger, Terrence Malick, still seems terrifically modern. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: In the fall of 1973, one could see signposts of cinema's future in Mean Streets and The Exorcist, yet with this youthful pair of proto-indie dreamers, Malick was paving a whole new road. It turned out to be the path most traveled. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Written, produced and directed by Terrence Malick, pic is his first feature and it's an impressive debut. Read more