What is on screen is impressive, even with the sense of something missing.

| Original Score: B | Dec 13, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

If Thornton had cut a few extra minutes' worth of pretty horses ... and left in a few more storytelling scenes, this attempt at a Western epic might have had more impact.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2006

Not a disaster as rumored to be, just a disappointing adaptation of a great novel. Thonrton fails to dramatize in visually or dramatically satisfying ways the hero's odyssey from innocence to experience, from childish game to acting with honor.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 29, 2006

I'm a fan of all involved, but this is a really tough watch.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 31, 2005

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

The movie that resulted from the studio's demand for cuts ... is a big-screen Cliff's Notes for the novel.

| Original Score: C | Dec 6, 2004

| Original Score: 67/100 | Mar 16, 2004

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 19, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 14, 2003

Despite a script which remains faithful to the sparse language of the novel, and some breathtaking cinematography, the whole production feels too lethargic.

| Feb 13, 2003

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

Part elegy, part romance, and part myth, it's a sweeping paean to the lost West, a dreamy chronicling of the end of an age.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Dec 31, 2002

The result of what would appear to be a great deal of effort and some horribly misguided conviction is an extremely slow-moving train wreck.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2002

...it's just so dull...

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 25, 2002

A soft, dusty, widescreen [old-school western]... an intelligent, sensitive drama with an epic scope, muted narrative and impressionistic heart.

| Original Score: B | Aug 30, 2002

Those horses are as attractive as promised, but the film's snail-like plot caused me to lose interest early on.

| Aug 2, 2002