Set during the Civil War, [Bad Company]’s a war film that never gets near the war. Because the lead characters head west, it’s something of a western, though the “West” being sought never quite materializes, and is thus more an idea than a reality. With the war raging north, south, and east, and the West [...]

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Five years after receiving enormous acclaim for their screenplay of the groundbreaking, tone-swerving Bonnie and Clyde (1967), writers Robert Benton and David Newman were at it again. Their Bad Company is a worthy companion piece to their ’67 classic, with its doses of comedy, unsettling blasts of violence, travels through a hard-times American heartland, and [...]

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