Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

I feel silly reviewing a movie as classic and revered as this. What new could I possibly bring to the discourse of an iconic movie like this? Do I really need to tell you that Robert Redford and Paul Newman are fantastic actors? That the movie’s use of the wide open spaces of the desert are gorgeous and somehow terrifying? That the almost total lack of a score is a bold and interesting choice? I mean, I just did tell you all that through rhetorical questions, but I don’t need to. The editing is sometimes a bit harsh, and the third act kinda slows down when it should be ramping up, but if you’re watching this movie, it’s for two titans of Hollywood doing what few others have ever and will ever be capable of doing. Its status alone should convince you to watch it. It doesn’t need me underscoring that value.