Critics reviews

The movie is a showcase of dazzling camera moves, dollies, impossible tracking shots, the camera hanging like a trapeze artist inside the car, the corps de flics snaking through the flatlands of Texas. But he also shows his genius for never letting the pyrotechnics overwhelm human drama.

Astonishingly kinetic, full of screen movement continuously heightened by camera movement—people scramble to try out their wheels and the young virtuoso tracks alongside them, in the back seat of a speeding car he turns 360° while dialogue unspools on the radio.

Steven Spielberg’s debut feature is a bafflingly underexposed, underrated road movie.

Sugarland nicely utilizes flavorful overlapping dialogue, pop-culture references, and soft light.

A fluid, entertaining chase picture.