Zabriskie Point is the work of someone so moved by the space, silence, and light of the desert that the neurotic self-importance of the cities of the West falls into place as a temporary fad or aberration....Nearly fifty years after MGM had so drastically reduced von Stroheim's Greed, along came Michelangelo Antonioni to make a picture so anti-idiomatic, so detached from identification or story, so uncommercial, and so willfully, self-destructively beautiful that it sucked dry the liquidity at MGM. Zabriskie Point can be criticized; the story of rebellious students who retreat from Los Angeles to Death Valley is only a sketch. Or is it remote and infinitesimal, like the movements of insects on the ground as seen from a height? It is easier now to appreciate that Antonioni sought the sensibility of the desert for the soul of this movie, and that the film is a meditation not to be tied up by narrative....-David Thomson, "After the Western," PFA