The Italian western that launched a genre.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2024

Gian Maria Volonté lends excellent support as the snarling Ramon and Ennio Morricone's minimalist score is a gem.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 9, 2024

It seems all that it took was a spark to ignite the storied career, but it all truly begins with A Fistful of Dollars. We should all be thankful.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 16, 2024

Iconic Sergio Leone western (with Clint Eastwood really understanding the power of stillness and restraint to convey status) in an amazing Extensive Special Edition 4K upgrade from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 27, 2022

A solid effort that establishes some constants.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 4, 2022

Ennio Morricone's legendary, highly unique score essentially becomes a character of its own - with some scenes lingering overlong as if to allow the melodies to finish.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 24, 2020

Groundbreaking and impeccable.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 6, 2020

Eastwood's magnetic presence and Ennio Morricone's unforgettable soundtrack blending flamenco guitar with haunting whistling elevates the film above its pilfered story.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 9, 2020

Every genre-loving moviegoer should see at least once projected on a theater screen.

| May 23, 2018

The climatic bloodbath of A Fistful of Dollars still stings because the film's swaggering braggadocio deliberately fails to prepare us for it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 21, 2018

[Clint] Eastwood may not have been technically gifted, but he had plenty of star quality.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 13, 2018

A Fistful of Dollars has a cult, comic-book intensity. It is the punk rock of westerns.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 13, 2018

... this was a new kind of western: cynical, violent, stylish, and austere, playing out in a landscape of endless deserts and clapboard towns infested with gunmen.

| May 12, 2017

Westerns were never the same after Sergio Leone.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 29, 2011

The moment where Sergio Leone, anonymous costume drama hack turned into Sergio Leone, keen stylist and poet of cruelty.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 20, 2011

Once in a great while a western comes along that breaks new ground and becomes a classic of the genre.

| May 23, 2011

Guns galore in intro "spaghetti Western" serving.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 14, 2010

What Leone does with this movie is boil the Western down to its very essence, removing all the extraneous parts.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 12, 2010

A deliciously ripe spaghetti western

| Original Score: 81/100 | Dec 31, 2009

Very much an act of sardonic disrespect toward the genre, yet it's also a legitimate passion play

| Aug 26, 2009