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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Slant MagazineSlant MagazineScarecrow embraces sprawl of both the narrative and geographical variety with freewheeling abandon.
- 100The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThis is a jewel of American cinema.
- 80Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichHollywood movies have rarely spoken such tough and tender truths.
- 80Total FilmTom DawsonTotal FilmTom DawsonIt’s strong on the details of itinerant life, and allows plotting to take a back seat to character.
- 80Time Out LondonDave CalhounTime Out LondonDave CalhounScarecrow’ feels like an existential fairytale squarely rooted in the reality of America’s fraying backroads and small towns. It’s all a little rambling and anarchic, but later scenes in a jail have real bite. And when the sadness behind Lion’s smile is revealed, it’s also genuinely moving.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebertit is a well-acted movie and for long stretches we're hoping it will work.
- 70Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlA flawed, fascinating testament to a time of discovery in Hollywood: of how stories could be told onscreen, of what great actors might find within themselves, of just what in the hell this country had become in the late-'60s crackup.
- 50The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyIt all goes decisively wrong when Jerry Schatzberg, the director, and Garry Michael White, who wrote the screenplay, decide to saddle the pair with a poetic vision that suddenly makes everything needlessly phony.