An epic western in which Cimino portrays a panorama of injustice and class struggle, with a beauty close to a Frederic Remington canvas, but whose narrative consistency dissipates like a cloud of dust. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 5, 2023

Epic but brutal Western has nudity, sexual violence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2021

A masterpiece that in every new dancing party presents new dancing steps. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 28, 2019

A chaotic concert where disparate notes have been mixed. It's as if director Michael Cimino wanted to make various different films. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 20, 2019

Neither Kris Kristofferson nor Christopher Walken, both of them fine actors, can prevail against the relentless scale and movement of the production.

| Jun 8, 2015

It is a bloated Western that contains some extraordinary moments, a lot of heavy-handed political commentary and a hell of a lot of padding.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 27, 2015

Enormous, but also gorgeous in its enormity.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 29, 2014

The first critics to lay eyes on it mistook the emphasis on the personal and painterly for self-indulgence - static naval gazing. This confuses incident with the incidental.

| Aug 15, 2013

I will leave others to pick nits off this epic panorama.

| Aug 4, 2013

It is a demanding film, without a doubt - but a passionate one.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 1, 2013

Cimino endows the visuals with a Zola-esque texture and realism. But the characterisation and dramatic reach go beyond even that.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 1, 2013

Emotionally stings like few other westerns.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 1, 2013

Its status as a true wonder-work of American cinema is now surely beyond doubt.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 1, 2013

The set-pieces are majestic and its disenchanted view of the american frontier myth still rings ominously true.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 30, 2013

On a purely sensory level, Heaven's Gate is overpowering.

| Apr 1, 2013

If anything, Michael Cimino's inert disaster of a Western has gotten worse over the years ...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 19, 2013

Michael Cimino's film represented a slight return to classicism--to larger-than-life Panavision spectacle and crane shot-managed majesty, however contradicted by narrative bleakness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 16, 2013

I like Heaven's Gate just fine, but I don't love it. I wish I did. It's fun to participate in the redemption of a film maudit.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 13, 2012

[VIDEO ESSAY] "Heaven's Gate" is an unforgettable film full of heartfelt sincerity and pointed commentary about America's bloody history of hypocrisy, greed, and racism.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 18, 2012

Flawed but interesting piece of art in the form of an anti-Western.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2012