Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969

Vincent Canby, New York Times: Very funny in a strictly contemporary way-the last exuberant word on movies about the men of the mythic American West who have outlived their day. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: You have to admire the craft and assurance of the thing even as its artificiality hits you in the face. Read more

John Mahoney, Hollywood Reporter: It is a great film and will be an exceptionally popular and profitable one. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Although Butch Cassidy wasn't the first movie to pair up a couple of wisecracking best friends in an action/adventure setting, this film became the model of how well that approach could work when done right. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: William Goldman's script is constantly too cute and never gets up the nerve, by God, to admit it's a Western. Read more

TIME Magazine: Every character, every scene, is marred by the film's double view, which oscillates between sympathy and farce. Read more

Time Out: One of the funniest, if slightest, Westerns of recent years. Read more

Whitney Willaims, Variety: The John Foreman production is episodic, but George Roy Hill's direction is so satisfying in catching the full value of the Goldman screenplay that a high degree of interest is sustained. Read more