Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) poster
1969 · western · adventure

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Directed by George Roy Hill1h 51m1969
ElsewhereIMDb8.0238kRT89%Metacritic66TMDB7.62k
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Warm, steady, measured western / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.

Our read · Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) reads as a warm, steady, grounded western · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want charming outlaw banter heading toward elegiac western myth.

ends bittersweetit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 6attention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightLeisurely pacing and old-school violence lack the propulsion you need.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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