Easy Rider 1969

Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times: Fonda and Hopper, it should by this time go without saying, give immense performances. Read more

Vincent Canby, New York Times: 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. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: 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. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It plays today more as a period piece than as living cinema, but it captures so surely the tone and look of that moment in time. Read more

Time Out: [A] simplistic amalgam of travelogue and the zoom lens. Read more

Gene Moskowitz, Variety: None of the forced violence, lawlessness, rapist, gratuitous speed aspects of the motorbike clan in this perceptive film. Read more