The Warriors

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The Warriors

R

1979

1h 30m

Action

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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.

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Critics Consensus

As violent as it is stylish, The Warriors is a thrilling piece of pulp filmmaking.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

03/07/2021

2/4

No matter what impression the ads give, this isn't even remotely intended as an action film. It's a set piece. It's a ballet of stylized male violence.

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Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

03/07/2021

The Warriors admits to failures of conception (occasional) and dialogue (frequent), but there is much of value in Hill's visual elaboration of the material.

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Pauline Kael

The New Yorker

01/03/2018

There's a night-blooming, psychedelic shine to the whole baroque movie.

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Kathy Fennessy

Video Librarian Magazine

Sep 12

4/5

If Walter Hill's 1979 comic book-style turfwar thriller The Warriors received mixed reviews upon its initial release--Pauline Kael praised it and Roger Ebert panned it--time has made it iconic.

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Bianca Garner

Filmotomy

10/03/2024

Hill understood what teenagers liked, and as a result, he made a film that they could identify with.

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Emilie Black

Cinema Crazed

12/14/2023

4/5

The cast here is one of the main reasons why the film is such a classic. James Remar here is fantastic and really makes his presence known and his talent shine.

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Enrique R

@EnriqueRamosLovesMovies 4d

One of the best classic movies of all time! Worth a watch

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Lionheart M.

@Lionheart Dec 20

I love this movie. I probably watch this a hundred times. A must watch. And watch the documentaries on making this film. It was pretty scary for the actors.

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Thomas D

@Thom1967 Dec 19

EXCELLENT ! You got to discover this jewel. The fights are Furious (so much better than most recent films), the music is brilliant. The main title is a movie by itself…. Ok, it looks a tiny bit too 70’s at some points, but on the whole it’s UNFORGETTABLE! Enjoy !

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Thomas M

Dec 2

The Warriors , panned by almost every critic at the time Sans Ebert, overcame like the characters all the obstacles to become one of the most iconic cult films ever produced, the 2,400 year old Greek Story of Anabasis , Warriors fighting their way back home through and past hostile army after hostile army , reimagined as a 1960's book about gang life ,filmed in the 70's embraced in the 80's by Gen X and continues to this day enthrall new watchers.

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Tracy U

Nov 28

Walter Hill's vibrant 1979 adaptation of Sol Yurick's 1965 novel - based loosely on an ancient Greek story called "Anabasis" - is a classic cinematic record of New York City circa 1979.

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Cal V

Nov 24

It’s a funky, flashy grindhouse epic that makes the most of its low budget graffiti aesthetic, but executed with the visceral pulp punch Hill mastered in his tough, terse pictures.

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Synopsis

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.

Director: Walter Hill
Producer: Lawrence Gordon
Screenwriter: Walter Hill, David Shaber, Sol Yurick
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Paramount Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 9, 1979, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 1, 2013
Runtime: 1h 30m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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