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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    TV Guide |

    A finely observed film but insufficiently developed as a satire of middle America. [Review of re-release] Read full review

  • 100
    Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten

    Fonda and Hopper's now-classic film hit the old guard with the force of a rifle shot to the head. [Review of re-release] Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Someday 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. Read full review

  • 90
    Variety |

    Fonda 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. Read full review

  • 90
    Time |

    The film has refurbished the classic romantic gospel of the outcast wanderer. Read full review

  • 70
    Chicago Reader | Dave Kehr

    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. [Review of re-release] Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Vincent Canby

    With 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. Read full review

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