At times the perversely slow beat of each scene can irritate, but that's a reasonable price for the film's super-saturated atmosphere.
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06/24/06
The Loveless (1983)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:8
Rotten:1
Average Rating:6.7/10
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Kathryn Bigelow made her feature film debut as a director with this stylish homage to the 1954 classic "The Wild One." Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while... [More]
Starring: Robert Gordon, Willem Dafoe, J. Don Ferguson, Liz Gans
Director: Kathryn Bigelow, Monty Montgomery
Reviews for The Loveless
1 - 9 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticIntelligent, provocative, camp, indulgent, erotic, occasionally frustrating, and often brilliant.
05/14/05
Top CriticAn excoriation of Reagan-era nostalgia for the Fifties
09/25/09
A strange, but compelling amalgam of art film and homage to the American International Pictures biker flicks of the 1960s.
10/26/07
Bigelow's first feature, co-written and co-directed with Monty Montgomery, is a nihilistic meditation on 1950s biker flicks, featuring Willem Dafoe in his first screen role.
01/24/07
Mostly concerned about how it looks and not too concerned about its story or in making great observations.
11/21/06
Its evocation of tough-guy glamour is ridiculously stilted. And it regards the past with absolutely no perspective or wit.
05/14/05
Top CriticA slightly hallucinatory homage to The Wild Ones.
05/14/05
A minor classic of a certain attitude.
03/02/05
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