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Vincent Canby, New York Times: Junior Bonner, based on an excellent original screenplay by Jeb Rosebrook, is Peckinpah in the benignly comic mood that, I suspect, is much more the natural fashion of this fine director than is the gross, intellectualized mayhem. Read more
Don Druker, Chicago Reader: A film filled to overflowing with small, subtle beauties. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: Junior Bonner may be the least Peckinpah-like in content, but it's very much like his other work in spirit. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie simply never comes together and works as a whole. The material is terribly thin. Read more