Search: Starring Warren Oates

Badlands (1973)

Review preview for Badlands

The cinematography, making the most of stark landscapes and wide open spaces, is often breathtaking.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5

A young couple fall in love and do terrible things in a story based on the Starkweather Fugate killings of 1959.
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

Review preview for Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia

What Peckinpah does so brilliantly in this deceptively clever film is to build elegantly on the established tropes of the genre only to pull the rug from under them half way through.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5

When a rich man offers a big reward for the head of the man who impregnated his daughter, an impoverished couple set out on the trail, but the world proves much more brutal than they expected.
In The Heat Of The Night (1967)

Review preview for In The Heat Of The Night

The historic and historical value of this film is immeasurable; it's also a superior thriller which stands up well even when shorn of context.

Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5

A black homicide detective is persuaded to help with a murder investigation in a racist Mississippi town where he faces a real danger of lynching.
The Wild Bunch (1969)

Review preview for The Wild Bunch

A revolutionary film, in every sense of the word.

Jeff Robson · 4.5 out of 5

A group of ageing outlaws plan one last big score in the dying days of the American West.