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82
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Drugstore Cowboy is one of the best films in the long tradition of American outlaw road movies - a tradition that includes "Bonnie and Clyde," "Easy Rider," "Midnight Cowboy" and "Badlands."Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

Van Sant gives his material shape and an invigorating, syncopated style. It keeps coming at you in surprising, dazzling ways.Full Review

Hal Hinson
Washington Post

Drugstore Cowboy, an electrifying movie without one misstep or one conventional moment. [11 Oct 1989]Full Review

Sheila Benson
Los Angeles Times

No previous drug-themed film has the honesty or originality of Gus Van Sant's drama Drugstore Cowboy.Full Review

Staff (Not Credited)
Variety

Drugstore Cowboy, Gus Van Sant's fresh, gutsy societal underbelly film, never wallows in picturesque down-and-outism, except at the end, when Dillon's character, frightened by the death of a girl he didn't like much and spooked by his own paranoiac suspicion, checks into a seedy hotel while trying to go cold turkey and not yield to the influence of a junkie priest drolly played by William Burroughs. [27 Oct 1989]Full Review

Jay Carr
Boston Globe
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