The Newton Boys

Name: The Newton Boys
Released: 1998-3-27
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dwight Yoakam

The Newton Boys

PG-13
2h 3m
1998

65%

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It seems the only way "The Newton Boys" can make good is by goin' bad! Faster than you can say "nitroglycerin," they've knocked over more than 80 banks from Texas to Canada. Now their sights are set on a multimillion-dollar Federal Reserve train robbery, but the Feds are about to turn up the heat!

Director:

Richard Linklater

Producer:

Anne Walker-McBay

Writer:

Richard Linklater, Claude Stanush, Clark Lee Walker

Cast:

Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dwight Yoakam, Julianna Margulies

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

65%

Critics Consensus: The Newton Boys uses a sharp cast and absorbing period detail to help make up for the frustrations of a story puzzlingly short on dramatic tension.

Reviews

Rob's Movie Vault

Rob Gonsalves

Better than its ads would lead you to believe, but it’s a vague and mostly uninvolving film.

September 2, 2022

FULL REVIEW

World Socialist Web Site

David Walsh

What the film communicates perhaps above all is Linklater's deep belief in the resiliency and ingenuity of human beings, his confidence in their ability to resist, by whatever means at their disposal, unfair and unjust conditions.

As portrayed by Matthew McConaughey in his first fully satisfying screen performance, Willis Newton regards his three younger brothers and their associates as social rectifiers who take money only from the real thieves: bankers and their directors.

ColeSmithey.com

Cole Smithey

June 21, 2017