Metacritic Film

Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (re-release)

Starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach, Aldo Giuffrè, Luigi Pistilli, Rada Rassimov, Enzo Petito, and John Bartha

MPAA RATING: R

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation
Western
161 minutes | Color
Italy / Spain
Released In Theaters May 30, 2003

Leone's epic 1967 Western conjures up opera, horse opera, the bullfight arena, and the blackest of black humor via riveting story-telling in the picaresque tradition. (Film Forum)

WRITTEN BY
Luciano Vincenzoni (also story)
Sergio Leone (also story)
Agenore Incrocci
Furio Scarpelli

DIRECTED BY
Sergio Leone

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

90 / 100

Critic Reviews

100	Chicago Reader Though ordained from the beginning, the three-way showdown that climaxes the film is tense and thoroughly astonishing.
100	Chicago Tribune An improbable masterpiece -- a bizarre mixture of grandly operatic visuals, grim brutality and sordid violence that keeps wrenching you from one extreme to the other.
100	Seattle Post-Intelligencer There are two kinds of people, my friend. Those who love Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and those who resist the machismo and gallows humor of what is arguably the definitive spaghetti western.
100	Boston Globe Gorgeously stoic art film.
80	TV Guide Staff (Not Credited) A massive, many-faceted film that continues to hold up, viewing after viewing.
70	Village Voice All told, and in giant widescreen, it's only blood-red adolescent fun, but it blooms like Douglas Sirk with a Gatling gun compared to the teenage demographic's current fare. Matrix, schmatrix: This is the season's supreme party movie.
60	Variety Staff (Not Credited) A curious amalgam of the visually striking, the dramatically feeble and the offensively sadistic.

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