Proves the new-fashioned western can deliver good old-fashioned entertainment.
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08/15/03
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
121 - 140 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Once you are drawn into the nuances of the story, you'll find you're pretty much at home on the 'Range'.
08/15/03
A great big western.
08/15/03
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08/15/03
Top Critic[A] relaxed, beautifully photographed Western.
08/15/03
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08/15/03
Ultimately it was the characters that drew me in, specifically Duvall and Costner's.
08/15/03
The year's first serious contender for big prizes.
08/15/03
Top CriticOpen Range is actually pretty good.
08/15/03
Although Open Range is far from perfect, it offers some of the rudimentary pleasures of the Western.
08/15/03
An imperfect but deeply involving and beautifully made Western.
08/15/03
Top CriticA fine, old-fashioned 2 1/4 hours at the Bijou.
08/15/03
Top Criticone of the best black comedies ever made
08/15/03
Kevin Costner's Open Range only proves it's time for this cowboy to hang up his spurs.
08/15/03
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.
08/15/03
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.
08/15/03
A flashback to both the great American western and a form of storytelling where gunshots were not an immediate reaction but a methodical inevitability.
08/14/03
There's a good movie in here, but it's beat into submission by Costner execution.
08/14/03
Costner approaches the project with an earnest nobility that's quite impressive, mainly because Earnest Nobility often becomes Unintentional Hilarity when coaxed too adamantly
08/14/03
Costner seems to fashion himself as a modern-day Frank Capra, pitting his flawed but morally centered heroes against a system waiting to tear them to shreds.
08/14/03
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