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In the end, Bill emerges as someone truly unique and someone who we feel privileged to know.Full Review

Ken Fox
TV Guide

If the film has a significant flaw, it's that Venditti never explains in the film how she found Billy, or why she's interested in him. Billy The Kid often plays more like an extended home movie than something intentional and artful.Full Review

Noel Murray
The Onion A.V. Club

But what you ultimately take from the film is the awareness that this smart, self-aware, uncensored kid has been playing to a camera in his own head since well before Venditti came along.Full Review

Ernest Hardy
L.A. Weekly

In her directorial debut, Venditti does her best to keep a distance between herself and her subjects. But you have to wonder how much of the Billy we see on-screen is affected by the presence of Venditti's camera.Full Review

V.A. Musetto
New York Post

I have seen more than 25 documentaries this year, and after a while they all start to run together, both structurally and thematically. Billy the Kid is utterly original in both respects.Full Review

Village Voice
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