No sooner has the viewer come to accept the Barrows’ thefts as bloodless, Robin Hood–style high jinks than the senseless, bloody death of a bystander recalibrates our moral compass; by the time the movie reaches its indelible finale, our judgment is once again rerouted by the excessiveness of the pair’s execution by an FBI death squad […]. If it’s possible for a film’s ending to feel at once ambiguous and definitive, Bonnie and Clyde leaves the viewer feeling torn apart without necessarily knowing why.
— Adam Nayman (The Ringer)
Descendants of Clyde Barrows and Bonnie Parker sued Warner Brothers, claiming that Bonnie and Clyde cast aspersions on their forebears.
— Steven Bach: Final Cut: Art, Money and Ego in the Making of "Heaven's Gate" (1985)
Synopsis: In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.