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18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenFonda and Hopper’s now-classic film hit the old guard with the force of a rifle shot to the head. [Review of re-release]
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertSomeday it was inevitable that a great film would come along, utilizing the motorcycle genre, the same way the great Westerns suddenly made everyone realize they were a legitimate American art form, Easy Rider is the picture.
- 100TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineA finely observed film but insufficiently developed as a satire of middle America. [Review of re-release]
- 100CineVueChristopher MachellCineVueChristopher MachellNot only emblematic of independent American cinema, but, released in 1969, is the definitive statement on the death of the 60s.
- Biker classic, with memorable counterculture monologues.
- 90VarietyVarietyFonda himself has given this a fine production dress, with associate Bert Schneider, and the brilliant lensing, excellent music background ballads, especially Bob Dylan's "Easy Rider," are fine counterpoints to this poetic trip along Southwest America.
- 90TimeTimeThe film has refurbished the classic romantic gospel of the outcast wanderer.
- Easy Rider is very likely the clearest and most disturbing presentation of the angry estrangement of American youth to be brought to the screen.
- 70Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrThe 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. [Review of re-release]
- 70The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyWith the exception of Nicholson, its good things are familiar things - the rock score, the lovely, sometimes impressionistic photography by Laszlo Kovacs, the faces of small-town America.