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08/27/03
Open Range (2003)
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Reviews Counted:168
Fresh:132
Rotten:36
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: A simple tale, well told, Open Range is one of Kevin Costner's better efforts.
Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $58,260,046
Synopsis: Academy-Award® winning director Kevin Costner ("Dances with Wolves") helms this traditional Western tale of a way of life that is quickly disappearing. Boss Spearman (ROBERT DUVALL), Charley... [More]
Starring: Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon
Director: Kevin Costner
Reviews for Open Range
41 - 60 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
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.
08/27/03
None of it is exactly new, but in his thorough understanding Western movie conventions Costner displays real faith in the things he’s recycling.
08/26/03
The ride is worth taking and it's Costner's best work in many a year.
08/25/03
A welcome return to the Western and more specifically to the romantic West.
08/25/03
... Open Range ambles into view, offering a timeless reminder of the power and pleasures a gosh-durn, honest-to-goodness Western provides.
08/22/03
The clumsy dialogue shows no respect for the audience and essentially derails what could've been a very good film.
08/22/03
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08/22/03
If you have two hours to live, see this movie ? it will make those two hours seem like two weeks.
08/22/03
It may not have the Duke's boots to walk in, but Open Range covers a lot of ground just fine with its own.
08/22/03
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08/21/03
A flawed but highly entertaining B Western blown up to John Ford scale.
08/21/03
The casting of this film may be its greatest asset: Duvall and Costner have the easy familiarity of longtime partners.
08/21/03
There’s not enough — well, hardly anything — new here to call Open Range a great Western. But it’s probably as good as we’re going to get and as good as it needs to be.
08/21/03
Costner has not only salvaged his own career with Open Range, but just may have done for the Western what Moulin Rouge! and Chicago did for the musical.
08/21/03
Just when the Hollywood western genre seemed long ago ridden off into the sunset, here thunders back Open Range with double barrels ablaze.
08/20/03
This ain't no Kevin Costner pitcher. This here belongs to Robert Duvall.
08/20/03
...one of the best films of the year.
08/20/03
Thankfully the director who made Dances With Wolves shines through here, mostly overshadowing that guy who gave us Waterworld and The Postman.
08/20/03
Somewhere beneath the syrupy melodrama and the scenes that should have expired long ago, there is an intelligent, thoughtful western in waiting.
08/19/03
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September 28, 2006:
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May 11, 2005:
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