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(1 - 47) of 47 OFCS Rating: 84% Fresh Page   1   2/5 "If you have two hours to live, see this movie ? it will make those two hours seem like two weeks."   Filmcritic.com   Blake French 5/5 "It’s a grand old western the way they used to make ’em, simple and elegant and cool and dusty and marvelous... the best western made since Unforgiven."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius B+ "The latest Kevin Costner vehicle is his best in years… and if you can get past the slow pace of the flick, it’s a welcome change from this summer’s other offerings."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 3/4 "It may not have the Duke's boots to walk in, but Open Range covers a lot of ground just fine with its own."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 3.5/4 "...one of the best films of the year."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "Filled with clichés."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 1.5/4 "Open Range is far from the worst film of the year, but it does test one's endurance like no other."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 2.5/4 "It also helps that Costner doesn’t allow the hurt inflicted against his oppressed free grazers to approach the wearisome political correctness of his Dances With Wolves."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez "El film, hermosamente fotografiado por James Muro, es como un ejemplar perdido de una especie en extinción. También lo es, en cierta manera, su coprotagonista Robert Duvall."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B "Costner aside, it is a very nice film, eminently watchable and praiseworthy."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3.5/4 "A flashback to both the great American western and a form of storytelling where gunshots were not an immediate reaction but a methodical inevitability."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress C+ "There's a good movie in here, but it's beat into submission by Costner execution."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov B "If you like old-fashioned westerns filled with grandiose landscapes and even more extraordinary acts of heroism, this movie's for you."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/4 "This is a great two-hour motion picture. Unfortunately, it runs 20 minutes longer than that."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/5 "Western's sincerity and Robert Duvall's warm, fascinating lead performance can't make up for a rough ride with an uneven tone."   Netflix   James Rocchi 2/4 "Kevin Costner rises up from the carcass of his career to produce, direct and star in a flaccid ode to the classic Western."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 7/10 "Proves the new-fashioned western can deliver good old-fashioned entertainment."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 69/100 "Kevin Costner's return to the western genre is a classicist revenge drama that takes its time in becoming one and is richer as a result."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman 8/10 "Ultimately it was the characters that drew me in, specifically Duvall and Costner's."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 7/10 "...a cordial and welcome film with likable heroes, dastardly villains, and a rousing climax. It does nothing innovative, but it doesn't need to."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio "Costner isn't making a movie, he's living up to a legend, one he helped create and now can't control."   Light Views   John Larsen 4.5/5 "This is probably one of the best westerns made since Kevin Costner first hopped on a horse in Silverado."   Film Threat   Kevin Carr B "Costner tends towards humorless earnestness for his romantic American hero, but he has the good sense to pair himself with the gruffer, glinting irreverence of old pro Duvall."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3/5 "A leisurely elegy for the American West with Kevin Costner's Unforgiven written all over it."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 3/4 "A welcome return to the Western and more specifically to the romantic West."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "A terrific cast... and laudable ambitions more than make up for its meanderings."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "An engrossing moral viewpoint combined with three solid star performances is more than enough to make Open Range one of the best of the modern day Westerns."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ "It may be time for some cowboy heroes again."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow "A pure Western through and through-when the heroes have to strap on their six-guns, they do so without a moment’s hesitation and kill without regret-and demonstrates that the old ways still have a bit of life to them."   Critic Doctor   Peter Sobczynski 3/5 "Intriguing and clever enough to keep us gripped, even though nothing very surprising happens."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline "Though the film's simplicity is often too obvious, and its platitudes too perfectly pronounced, Open Range remains a film of beauty and power, if for no other reason than its dedication to classical storytelling."   TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)   Rick Curnutte C "Somewhere in there is a pretty good western. If only we could see more of it amid the ballast."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux B "Not up to the level of the best of the genre, but it is a solid, well-crafted movie."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B+ "Costner’s film is steeped in the tradition of John Ford and the great westerns of the 40’s and 50’s"   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford "An old-fashioned cowboy movie that sticks to the genre's roots with a little jigging and tweaking to remain relevant for current audiences."   Movie Views   Ryan Cracknell 4/5 "Costner approaches the project with an earnest nobility that's quite impressive, mainly because Earnest Nobility often becomes Unintentional Hilarity when coaxed too adamantly"   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg B+ "(Costner) musters quiet moments of humbling tenderness and knee-buckling violence, and also knows when one should outweigh the other."   Eclipse Magazine   Sean O'Connell B "Open Range is a bit like Charley himself: competent, flawed, unglamorous, grim but not unhopeful, it gets the job done… a simple, uncluttered tale of honor, loyalty, freedom, and frontier justice."   Decent Films Guide   Steven D. Greydanus 3/4 "A rousing addition to that most American of film genres, the western."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight 2.5/4 "A western that wrestles briefly with Unforgiven introspection before contenting itself with fiddling around with a gun/dog fetish."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf 9/10 Read review   Modamag.com   Brian Orndorf 3/4 Read review   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 3/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 6/10 Read review   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 8/10 Read review   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger Read review   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs  (1 - 47) of 47 OFCS Rating: 84% Fresh Page   1