| 100 |
New York Daily News
The best movie I've seen this year.
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| 80 |
Film.com
Far too deliberate for many--I found its generally contemplative spirit, punctuated at regular intervals by some exciting battle sequences, superb.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
In its quiet way, Ride With the Devil is terrific.
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| 80 |
LA Weekly
The film is beautifully shot and filled with fine performances.
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| 80 |
Salon.com
Ang Lee's dark and sober fable might be the most interesting and least dogmatic view of the Civil War to wend its way into the multiplexes.
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| 80 |
Variety
Lee has made a brutal but sensitively observed film about the fringes of the Civil War.
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| 80 |
Dallas Observer
In this, Lee's most ambitious and successful work yet, his celebrated gift for psychological shading and complexity is on proud display.
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| 80 |
Film.com
A gorgeous and enduring piece of work.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
For fans of Westerns, the film may have particular appeal. Its period gear and garb and galloping horses are major attractions
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
It's one of the few films that persuades you that it went out to meet the war and bring it to us with verisimilitude.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Examiner
Never has this war been filmed with such ragged glory.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
The movie is longer and slower than necessary, but it explores interesting questions of wartime violence, personal integrity, and what it means to come of age in a society ripping apart at the seams.
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
At a time when new westerns are in short supply, Devil a sight for sore eyes.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Brave enough to take up the war from the Southern point of view.
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| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
A serious film with a lot on its mind, is probably the most intelligent treatment of this period we've had.
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| 70 |
TV Guide
A moving, gorgeously filmed look at one of the Civil War's more obscure chapters, the quasi-official combat that divided friends along the Missouri-Kansas border.
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| 70 |
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Spencer H. Abbott
Watching Wright portray a black man who actually fights alongside the very men who wish to keep him enslaved proves to be an interesting philosophical dichotomy.
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| 70 |
The New York Times
Dramatically skimpy, even though the movie stirs together themes of love, sex, death and war.
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| 70 |
Mr. Showbiz
Though Lee's movie is dripping with action and beautiful details, it's aimless and, eventually, tedious.
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| 67 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Doesn't offer much texture or depth of character.
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| 67 |
Austin Chronicle
Unostentatious originality, psychological insight, and stark beauty make it well worth any film lover's time.
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| 63 |
USA Today
Jewel is more like an acting zircon because she just can't project, but at least she looks the part, and her novelty value isn't unwelcome.
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| 60 |
Time
For all the carnage, Lee's tone is contemplative.
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| 60 |
Village Voice
The movie is not unintelligent but it is insipid
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| 60 |
Rolling Stone
A meditation on the racial and class conflicts at the heart of the American character.
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| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly
Ang Lee's bloody but dramatically anemic depiction of the American Civil War as fought by boys without uniforms.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Not a very entertaining movie; it's a long slog unless you're fascinated by the undercurrents.
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| 50 |
Portland Oregonian
Comes to be dominated by the acting, and this is an unfortunate fate.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
The plot is largely a series of excuses for one-liners expertly delivered by Maguire, making all the hatred, maiming, and killing seem like digressions.
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