If Sam Peckinpah had made Close Encounters of the Third Kind...(or)...if Steven Spielberg ...had directed The Wild Bunch, I could imagine it turning out a lot like this.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2023

The film serves up a serious-minded genre experiment that works, despite some lingering feelings of disappointment for its lack of raw, popcorn-munching silliness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 9, 2023

If you're into action movies in which a hero overcomes multiple difficulties in spite of his tumultuous past, then Cowboys & Aliens is for you... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 1, 2023

Cowboys and Aliens is an action-thriller unlike anything we've ever seen before.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2022

The idea of Cowboys & Aliens is so wild that it's a shame the film doesn't make more of it.

| Dec 5, 2020

For a film that should have been out of this world, Cowboys & Aliens is disappointingly down to earth.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

Commits the one cardinal sin that a movie with such a ridiculous concept absolutely cannot commit; it's boring.

| Original Score: C | Jul 12, 2020

The many dysfunctional features of the script translate into scenes that slow down the pace of the footage until it is disrupted, not infrequently, into an authentic trance. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 25, 2020

Cowboys and Aliens purports to be a genre mash-up, which means that somebody needed to figure out how to integrate Western tropes with sci-fi ones. Unfortunately, no one bothered.

| Sep 16, 2019

it takes more than a clever concept to drive a film, and Cowboys & Aliens never rises above that to attain its full potential.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 8, 2019

Despite a talented pedigree on both sides of the camera, it is a mind-numbingly dull excursion.

| Original Score: D+ | May 7, 2019

Cowboys & Aliens is everything its moniker implies, including a whole lot of fun.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 9, 2019

The cast is outstanding. The story is compelling-at times, even touching, and the aliens are cool. Sure there are some plot-holes, but they do more right than wrong.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 6, 2018

A sci-fi / adventure movie where entertainment (and suspension of disbelief) is the priority; and it's well paced, whilst being neither innovative nor particularly clever.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2018

It has cowboys. It has aliens. It does exactly what it says on the tin. Unfortunately, it rarely does anything more than that.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 4, 2018

Cowboys and Aliens is a big mess, sure, but I don't know what everybody's screaming about, it's still better than most of the other maggoty offal they've been serving at the multiplex all year long.

| Oct 30, 2018

Cowboys & Aliens succeeds brilliantly as a summer film. Beautifully designed, full of crazy action sequences that are genuinely original, the flick is a perfect escapist fantasy into the Weird West.

| May 23, 2018

From the cool special effects, to its top-notch acting and wickedly fun concept, Cowboys and Aliens is just that film that you may in fact hate to love. But it is really enjoyable.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 8, 2017

[Jon] Favreau goes for iconic over smart and if you like any of the things on the above check list, chances are you'll have a pretty good time at Cowboys & Aliens.

| Aug 30, 2017

It is a rare film that can take two icons of toughness, namely Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, and make them into laughing stock, but Cowboys & Aliens managed this feat repeatedly.

| Aug 21, 2017