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• this isn't a rousing movie as much as a reassurance

  by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe ]

• terrific, no-nonsense, straightforward western

  by Rene Rodriguez [Miami Herald ]

• still manages to be a most worthy Western remake

  by Roger Moore [Orlando Sentinel ]

• never been able to reach out and move the audience to heights of emotion

  by Kyle Smith [New York Post ]

• just tasty enough to leave movie lovers hungry for a missing spice

  Review rate : B+ by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly ]

• it's not a comedy but, like the book and the 1969 film, instances of levity are sprinkled throughout

  by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

• it's great

  by Robert W. Butler [Kansas City Star ]

• instead there will be complaints that the film is not idiosyncratic enough

  by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic ]

• if watching the film isn't quite as much fun as reading the book - well, that's the risk of bringing a great book to the screen

  by Moira Macdonald [Seattle Times ]

• have taken an especially keen interest in the venerable Christian and Hebrew texts

  by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer ]

• great filmmaking. Great acting. Great movie. Saddle up

  by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]

• creates a bracing synthesis of classical Hollywood storytelling and grimy Western mythology

  by Chris Vognar [Dallas Morning News ]
• Review rate : A- Reviewed by Gary Thompson [Philadelphia Daily News ]
• Reviewed by Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch ]
• Reviewed by Peter Keough [Boston Phoenix ]

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