The Warriors (1979) Film Review

1. The Warriors movie review & film summary (1979) | Roger Ebert

  • The Warriors is a real peculiarity, a movie about street gang warfare, written and directed as an exercise in mannerism.

  • "The Warriors" is a real peculiarity, a movie about street gang warfare, written and directed as an exercise in mannerism. There's hardly a moment when we

2. The Warriors | Rotten Tomatoes

  • Really cool movie. I liked that it kept the serious vibe throught out the whole movie, without going into comedy or childish scenes. Nothing that blows your ...

  • A turf battle between New York City street gangs that rages from Coney Island to the Bronx. The Warriors are mistakenly fingered for the killing of a gang leader. Soon they have every gang in the city out to get revenge and they must make their way across the city to their own turf.

3. Review: The Warriors (1979) - Cereal At Midnight

  • May 30, 2022 · The Warriors is a wonderful film that has something for everyone. It's indefinable in terms of genre, though it wears its influences on its sleeve.

  • Is The Warriors  an under-appreciated gem? This 1979 genre-bender from Walter Hill came along at the same time as  Mad Max  and outright pre...

4. The Warriors at 40: the enduring appeal of a New York classic

  • Feb 8, 2019 · Walter Hill's 1979 crime drama pits warring gangs against each in other in a battle that takes place across the whole of the city and remains a compelling ...

  • Walter Hill’s 1979 crime drama pits warring gangs against each in other in a battle that takes place across the whole of the city and remains a compelling snapshot

5. Movie Review: The Warriors (1979) - Panorama of the Mountains

6. The Warriors Reviews - Metacritic

  • The Warriors is a deeply silly movie. Its gangs are ridiculous comic-book figures. Still, director Walter Hill treats its world with total seriousness. Bleak ...

  • In 1979 a charismatic leader summons the street gangs of New York City in a bid to take it over. When he is killed, The Warriors are falsely blamed and now must fight their way home while every other gang is hunting them down to kill them.

7. The Real Deal - The Warriors (1979) | Bright Wall/Dark Room

  • Aug 21, 2019 · So, The Warriors was both perfect and terrifying: a movie that captures the feeling of sprinting back to one's bedroom in the middle of the ...

  • The Warriors is about living with—through, during—the night, a lesson we all learn as kids, and carry with us as we sleep. It’s not so much about the fear of what’s behind, but about running as fast as possible toward what’s on the other side.

8. Review: "The Warriors" (1979) - HIGH DEF GEOFF

  • Jul 11, 2016 · Even beyond that lack of spark, there's not much here of note from most of the actors regardless. ... All this is not to say that the film itself ...

  • The Warriors come out to play as I finally experience Walter Hill's cult classic film for the first time and assess whether or not it was worth the hype.

9. The Warriors Movie Review | Common Sense Media

  • The Warriors is a classic action thriller about rival fictional New York gangs with violence -- including the use of weapons -- and strong language.

  • '70s cult action thriller has strong language, violence. Read Common Sense Media's The Warriors review, age rating, and parents guide.

10. The Warriors: The 1979 cult hit that shows an ultra-violent NY - BBC

  • Feb 9, 2024 · Released during a period when New York was "the poster child for disrepair and abandonment", dystopian film The Warriors came to appear more ...

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  • Released during a period when New York was "the poster child for disrepair and abandonment", gang drama The Warriors came to appear more realistic than intended.

11. The Warriors (1979). - Film '89

  • Jan 30, 2019 · The Warriors' relatively simplistic and segmented narrative is one of its greatest strengths and in many ways it resembles a comic book with its ...

  • “Maybe we’d better take off.” Can a film become so iconic, so of its time as to somehow surpass the limitations of its own flaws? The reason I ask this possibly obtuse question is…

12. Review: "The Warriors" (1979) - Get On My Damn Level!!

  • Oct 14, 2016 · When this movie hit theaters in '79 it was quite controversial for supposedly inciting gang violence in big cities. It is true that gangs come ...

  • Urban Dictionary (that paragon of information that Webster's won't touch) has 3 definitions for a cult classic:  Something that's really hip with a select group of people. A movie that is weird as fuck. A popular piece of work, generally a movie, which has gained a large following. This

13. CULT MOVIE REVIEW: The Warriors (1979) - John Kenneth Muir

  • Sep 4, 2010 · The Walter Hill film of the disco-era purposefully mythologizes The Warriors and firmly places them in a fantasy-styled (if dystopic...) landscape.

  • "The problem in the past has been the man turning us against one another. We have been unable to see the truth, because we have been fighting for ten square feet of ground, our turf, our little piece of turf. That's crap, brothers! The turf is ours by right, because it's our turn. All we have to do is keep up the general truce. We take over one borough at a time. Secure our territory... secure our turf... because it's all our turf!"

14. Rewind, 1979 in Film: The Warriors - Filmotomy

  • Jul 25, 2019 · However, critic Pauline Kael was a fan of the film, in her review for the New Yorker, she stated that “The Warriors is a real moviemaker's movie ...

  • Bianca takes to the streets of 1979 as she reviews a childhood favourite in Walter Hill's cult classic, The Warriors.

15. The Warriors DVD review | Cine Outsider

  • Sep 6, 2005 · Among the discoveries was The Warriors. The thing is, they were really excited by it. This was my first inkling that the film had gone from ...

  • There are major spoilers towards the end of this review, so newcomers to the film should proceed with caution.

16. A Gender Odyssey: The Warriors (1979) - Max Schaffer

  • Apr 27, 2019 · It is truly a mess of a film that's full of problematic content—but it's also completely fascinating and wildly entertaining. Whatever your ...

  • Breaking down the cult classic’s complexity of masc/femme identities

17. Classic Film Review: The Warriors Came Out to Play 40 Years Ago

  • Feb 6, 2019 · Walter Hill's The Warriors turns the big 4-0 this year, and it's looking … well, mostly great. It's a snapshot of gang violence in a decidedly ...

  • Walter Hill's cult classic endures as both an efficient action movie and a relic of a bygone era.

18. The Warriors (1979) - Mutant Reviewers

  • Aug 21, 2012 · This fairly simple, if catchy, premise fuels the remaining run of the film. I really grooved on how the movie itself is set up, like a comic ...

  • “Waaaarrrrrriiiorsss, come out to pla-ay!” The Scoop: 1979 R, directed by Walter Hill and starring Michael Beck, James Remar, and Dorsey Wright Tagline: These are the Armies of The Nigh…

19. Movie Review : The Warriors (1979) - Dead End Follies

  • Apr 1, 2014 · You have to put THE WARRIORS in context to appreciate the scope of its paranoia. The movies owes its wild art direction to the socioeconomic ...

  • I remember the morning before I moved to Montreal. My dad walked into my bedroom and sat on my bed, right next to me. His face was twisted with the displeasure of the task at hand. He said : '' Don't go there, It's not nice. There is still time to change your mind and there are nicer places and bett

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