#Style is Substance in Terrence Malick’s ‘Badlands’ (1973)
“#Style is Substance in Terrence Malick’s ‘Badlands’ (1973)” Amidst the rapturous critical reception that Terrence Malick’s Badlands received upon its 1974 release, one dissenting voice stood out. While Vincent Canby called Malick’s feature debut “a most important and exciting film” in the New York Times, Pauline Kael turned in a scathing review at the New…