A comic-book Western that’s not actually based on a comic book...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 3, 2025

Homage/parody to spaghetti Westerns.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 16, 2025

Sam Raimi's Western camp -- or is it? -- got a skip 30 years ago because it looked so lightweight and goofy. Your critical companion decided to finally unholster his reservations and take a look.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 3, 2025

A 21-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio nonetheless steals the show as The Kid, a fast-talking show-off hiding a daddy complex. Great fun.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 27, 2025

...a pared-down premise that's employed to predominantly entertaining (and sporadically spellbinding) effect by Raimi...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 2, 2020

Frequent gun violence in quirky '90s Western.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 11, 2015

The plot of this low-camp revenge thriller is little more than an excuse to line up one badass cowboy (or girl) opposite another and let the eyeball-to-eyeball fireworks fly.

| Original Score: C | Sep 7, 2011

Sam Raimi’s foray into a new genre comes off as silly, cynical and derivative.

| Jul 6, 2010

Sam Raimi does a lot of interesting things in The Quick and the Dead and Sharon Stone plays a convincing female gunfighter, but the one-horse plot with no subplots to generate additional interest becomes a drag.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 19, 2009

Raimi's movie borrows heavily from classic spaghetti westerns, but Raimi has a style of his own, and plenty of it.

| Feb 3, 2007

A deadpan black comedy, Sam Raimi's fast-paced movie looks and sounds like a Leone oater but more so.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2005

Raimi's gimmicky but endlessly inventive direction gives it plenty of gas, and the excellent cast takes it the rest of the way.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 2, 2005

Sharon Stone misses the mark on this one.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 2, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jun 14, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 25, 2005

Stylish Raimi western is violent, unpredictable.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 3, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 30, 2004