Both dull and deeply unnecessary; a stinker.

| Aug 23, 2018

It is part of the richness of 3.10 to Yuma that this is a classical piece of storytelling with themes and characters that can be found in the very earliest Westerns.

| Jul 6, 2010

[I]f you're looking for an Unforgiven-style reinvention of the Western, prepare for disappointment.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 1, 2008

The film is a creditable remake - no better than the original but different enough to stand on its considerable merits.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 25, 2008

Mangold's film is more than sufficiently subtexty and cynical for our modern sensibilities while simultaneously embracing Mangold's obvious pleasure in the Westerns' time-honored swinging saloon doors and stern masculine traditions.

| Jan 8, 2008

Mangold delivers a taut modern take on a lesser classic, preserving the High Noon themes about doing the right thing against all odds, and injecting a more modern pacing and urgency without going overboard.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Sep 20, 2007

A well-made movie that isn't as simply expressed as its predecessor and so loses some of its mythic quality; the more you complicate westerns the less effective they often become.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 14, 2007

A shame that it ends on this one false note, but up to that point 3.10 To Yuma fairly races along.

| Sep 14, 2007

New Zealand's Russell Crowe and Britain's Christian Bale, donning the hats and accents to play outlaw and escort with grizzled assurance.

| Sep 14, 2007

A terrific turn by Peter Fonda, as a leathery bounty hunter hell-bent on retribution, is a bonus in a film far livelier than anyone had a right to expect.

| Sep 14, 2007

Despite a faintly anti-climactic ending, there's plenty of entertainment in this robust, old-fashioned western tale.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 14, 2007

A remake of a 1957 movie starring Glenn Ford, Yuma's pacing may owe something to the contemporary action movie, but the themes are age-old: redemption, morality and the lure of the lawless wilderness and of the killers who call it home.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2007

They don't make them like that anymore. But, hang on, they just did!

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2007

The two leads' sparking byplay, Crowe's addled cockiness versus Bale's nervy grit, would grace any surroundings, but it's a pleasure to revisit the frontier in a drama which feels far more vital than mere nostalgic homage.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Sep 14, 2007

At the helm of this remake, James Mangold initially risks stalling the plot with too much backstory, but then it's edge-of-your-seat action all the way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2007

James Mangold's expert and entertaining 3:10 to Yuma demonstrates both the Western's age-old appeal, and the problems it presents to a contemporary filmmaker.

| Sep 11, 2007

A decent Western, attractive mainly because of the acting duel between the straight-shooting Bale and the untamed Crowe.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2007

The editing is tense and there's mucho splatter but the climax is unforgivable for reasons I can't spell out -- and owes something to a recent picture I can't name.

Full Review | Sep 10, 2007

Crowe and Bale are a great study in contrasts, yet the two characters develop a grudging respect for each other that enriches the murky morality play that makes up the last half hour.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2007

The movie feels like an uneasy combination of new and old western stylings.

| Sep 7, 2007