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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- Though the film may not have one decent character, A Boy and His Dog (rereleased after a six-year moratorium) manages to be a likable celebration of friendship among the ruins.
- Jones directed and scripted this mordant sci-fi comedy from a novella by Harlan Ellison; the satire gets a trifle woozy in the picture’s last third, but the film is redeemed by one of the great bad-taste endings of recent cinema.
- 88Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenA Boy and His Dog is an unruly daydream capped with a surprisingly jet-black acknowledgment of humankind’s genetic destiny to ruin itself.
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineAdapted from an award-winning novella by science-fiction writer Harlan Ellison, A Boy And His Dog has won a cult following of its own for its offbeat, sardonic look into the future.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt's got a unique . . . well, I was about to say charm, but the movie's last scene doesn't quite let me get away with that.
- 60Time OutTime OutWhat lifts things right out of the rut is the cynical commentary provided by the hero's dog, communicating telepathically (in voice-off admirably spoken by Tim McIntire) and kicking the daylights out of all those boy-and-his-dog yarns.
- 60EmpireKim NewmanEmpireKim NewmanThe execution doesn't quite enliven the premise, but there's still enough enjoyably offbeat moments here to make this one worth digging up.
- 50Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrA Boy and His Dog lacks the density of a Peckinpah film—in spite of some clever ideas and a few well-wrought images, it seems too schematic and its satire too blunt.
- 50Slant MagazineEric HendersonSlant MagazineEric HendersonThe film is riddled with an unmistakably misogynistic bent, and can’t be bothered to supply one single likable soul.