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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:40
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.8/10
Synopsis: A classic Western regarded by many as the best of the genre, John Ford's THE SEARCHERS has been acknowledged by several directors who came into their own in the 1970s, including Martin Scorsese,... [More]
Since propinquity asserts considerable influence on critics' and ticket-buyers' evaluations of films, sizable segments of both groups will hail this initial venture by C.V. Whitney Pictures as the best western ever made.
Top CriticA mature, dark, ambivalent piece that helped pave the way for the modern western.
Top CriticJohn Wayne at his best, striking cinematography and character ambiguity makes this a powerful and thought-provoking Wild West Odyssey.
Top CriticWayne gives the performance of his career as Ethan Edwards, one of the most intriguing characters the American cinema has given us.
Top CriticOn the scale of Westerns this is undoubtedly one of the most grand.
If ever you need proof of the worth of the genre, you'll find it here.
A timeless classic, Wayne's most complex role. For anyone who says he cannot act, check this movie out!
A rip-snorting Western, as brashly entertaining as they come.
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The minute The Searchers begins, it's impossible to look away.
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A truly great western.
Through the central image of the frontier, the meeting point of wilderness and civilization, Ford explores the divisions of our national character, with its search for order and its need for violence, its spirit of community and its quest for independence
The quintessential American film about what it once meant to be American.
There is perhaps some discrepancy in the play between Wayne's heroic image and the pathological outsider he plays here (forever excluded from home, as the doorway shots at beginning and end suggest), but it hardly matters, given the film's visual splendou
A film that belongs to the category of so-called "important" movies - those which are remembered less by their own merit, and more by the way they influenced future film- makers.
One of Ford's undisputed masterpiecs and a quintessential text of the 1950s, a rare Western that explores the deep roots of racism (and sexism) in American life, and gives John Wayne his most complex performance as the anomic hero.
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a landmark Western that is at once a great, rousing adventure story, a fable about the nature of quest and fulfillment and an exploration of vicious racism
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