“Drugstore Cowboy” is one of the best films in the long tradition of American outlaw road movies – a tradition that includes “Bonnie and Clyde,”“Easy Rider,”“Midnight Cowboy” and “Badlands.” It is about criminals who do not intend to be particularly bad people, but whose ...
“Drugstore Cowboy” (at the Nuart), an electrifying movie without one misstep or one conventional moment, makes us voyeurs in the world of 1970s “dope fiends,” as junkie Matt Dillon likes to call them. Because it’s a pretty limited world, airless and crushingly dumb, in which the ...
Gus Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy is a road movie on opioids. Full Review|Feb 27, 2025 Terry FrancisSouthern Voice (Atlanta) Drugstore Cowboy understands the pleasures and release that drugs can give people, and also how it finally bottoms out their souls. ...