Cimarron...did not age well at all.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 14, 2024

Thought certain aspects of the Best Picture winner are archaic remnants of their time, it's still a sprawling and ambitious pioneer story with a proto-feminist tilt.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 4, 2023

Arguably the worst Best Picture winner in the Academy’s 95-year history.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 10, 2023

For its time, Cimarron had a huge budget (1.4 million) and filled an impressive scope (the film spans over 40 years), but that is all overshadowed by some pretty atrocious racial and anti-Semitic stereotypes.

| Jun 27, 2023

Cimarron is without a doubt the most grandiose movie to be filmed with natural settings and panoramas, since they invented the talkies. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 1, 2022

One of Edna Ferber's heartfelt, numbskull treks through the hardships and glories of the American heritage.

| Jul 28, 2022

Director Wesley Ruggles, Richard Dix, and the whole RKO personnel involved, appear to have put everything they had into this production, with the result that it turns out to be a stupendous entertainment.

| Feb 5, 2021

One of the year's best pictures.

| Feb 5, 2021

For two hours the film runs on. Not a foot of it can be cut. From the opening land rush sequence to the final fade-out on Yancey's statue immortalising in bronze the living flesh and blood, Cimmaron holds us.

| Jan 20, 2021

It is somehow a little disappointing that the film which opens with the rush for the land in Oklahoma should end with a luncheon-party, and after-luncheon speeches at the Ritz-Carlton, or some such hotel.

| Jan 12, 2021

It turned out to be, at its best, a talking picture more satisfying than the average, and, in Its less inspired moments, something to tax the patience of the please-easiest audience.

| Jan 12, 2021

Despite Yancey's admirable causes, the pacing is slow and the narrative uninspired, resulting in an important yet ponderous extravaganza.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 25, 2020

With due regards to the author's craftsmanship, the picture version seems better than the original.

| Jan 24, 2020

The conclusion of the story... is not in the least convincing.

| Jan 24, 2020

The all-time worst winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 13, 2020

Anyone who wants to see the best Western needs to admire Cimarron. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 10, 2019

It is impossible, of course, in a short notice to give any real idea of so full and detailed a picture -- but Cimarron is emphatically a film which everyone looking for a good entertainment should see.

| Feb 7, 2019

"Cimarron" is magnificent in scope, powerful in treatment, admirable in acting. But it is even more than all this. It is one of few talking picture productions which inspires rather than awes.

| Feb 17, 2015

I can see the epic tragic scope that Cimarron was going for, and I can glean the dramatic irony inherent in the hugeness of it all, but it just doesn't work. It's a stiff, unengaging movie.

| Mar 24, 2014

Get past the occasionally dated feel of Cimarron and you'll find a cracking yarn, one that does eventually make up for itself.

| Jul 6, 2010