Two-Lane Blacktop

Heilman's heroes remain insulated from us by their own failures to feel. We are part of the world they pass through invisibly -- and so they remain as foreign and opaque as ever.

It came nowhere close to the numbers on Easy Rider, but it is so much more worthwhile as a film. Indeed, I'm going to push my luck and say there has never been a better film about sweaters.

Captures an aura of existential despondence that's married to a far less evocative (and durable) strain of counterculture romantic doom.

Two-Lane Blacktop is a movie of achingly eloquent landscapes and absurdly inert characters.

The strange and sometimes pathetic world of barnstorming, hustling street-racing is explored with feeling by director-editor Monte Hellman.

This exciting existentialist road movie by Monte Hellman, with a swell script by Rudolph Wurlitzer and Will Corry and my favorite Warren Oates performance, looks even better now than it did in 1971.

...less about the wheels on the asphalt and more about the headspace that driving can put you in.

A piece of utterly original art-house Americana utterly unlike anything before or after.

...an arty yet earthy road movie that sits neatly in the slipstream of Easy Rider and Vanishing Point...

Two-Lane provides a script to match [Oates] and he gives what is simply one of the year's most memorable performances.