Bonnie and Clyde
1967, R, 111 min.
Directed by Arthur Penn, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Michael J. Pollard.

So definitive in so many ways, Bonnie and Clyde has become a modern touchstone. Wonderful performances accentuate the sharp script by Robert Benton and David Newman, while Arthur Penn’s brilliant camera strategies helped fuel a national debate about violence in movies and the inauguration of a new rating system.

This article appears in August 2 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.