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Ride With The Devil
USA Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for graphic war violence
Starring
Skeet Ulrich,
Tobey Maguire,
Jewel Kilcher,
James Caviezel,
Zach Grenier,
and
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
A bloody chapter of Civil War history in 1861, with friends fighting friends in vicious guerrilla warfare along the Kansas/Missouri border. This is the story of a 16-year-old boy, Jake (Maguire) who joins the First Kansas Irregulars.
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Daniel Woodrell (novel)
James Schamus
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Ang Lee
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 18, 2000
Video: July 18, 2000
Theatrical: November 24, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
138 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The best movie I've seen this year.

80
Film.com
Peter Brunette
Far too deliberate for many--I found its generally contemplative spirit, punctuated at regular intervals by some exciting battle sequences, superb.

80
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
In its quiet way, Ride With the Devil is terrific.

80
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
The film is beautifully shot and filled with fine performances.

80
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
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.

80
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Lee has made a brutal but sensitively observed film about the fringes of the Civil War.

80
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
In this, Lee's most ambitious and successful work yet, his celebrated gift for psychological shading and complexity is on proud display.

80
Film.com
Gemma Files
A gorgeous and enduring piece of work.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
For fans of Westerns, the film may have particular appeal. Its period gear and garb and galloping horses are major attractions

75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
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.

75
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Never has this war been filmed with such ragged glory.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
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.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
At a time when new westerns are in short supply, Devil a sight for sore eyes.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
Brave enough to take up the war from the Southern point of view.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A serious film with a lot on its mind, is probably the most intelligent treatment of this period we've had.

70
TV Guide
Steve Simels
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.

70
TNT RoughCut
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.
70
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Dramatically skimpy, even though the movie stirs together themes of love, sex, death and war.

70
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
Though Lee's movie is dripping with action and beautiful details, it's aimless and, eventually, tedious.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
Doesn't offer much texture or depth of character.

67
Austin Chronicle
Russell Smith
Unostentatious originality, psychological insight, and stark beauty make it well worth any film lover's time.

63
USA Today
Mike Clark
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.

60
Time
Richard Corliss
For all the carnage, Lee's tone is contemplative.

60
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
The movie is not unintelligent but it is insipid

60
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
A meditation on the racial and class conflicts at the heart of the American character.
58
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Ang Lee's bloody but dramatically anemic depiction of the American Civil War as fought by boys without uniforms.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Not a very entertaining movie; it's a long slog unless you're fascinated by the undercurrents.

50
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Comes to be dominated by the acting, and this is an unfortunate fate.

30
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
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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