A standard western.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 22, 2025

Objectively speaking it’s not very good at all, but where it does succeed is deserving of extra praise, given how difficult it must have been to amplify those good seeds...

| Original Score: B- | Jun 17, 2024

“Jane Got a Gun” is the definition of bland.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 22, 2022

It's hard to greet Jane Got a Gun with much more than an admirable shrug. It's a serviceable film, but it's also evident where improvements could have been made.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 22, 2022

Beautifully shot in New Mexico by cinematographer Mandy Walker, who provided equally as evocative visuals for the likes of Shattered Glass, Tracks and Truth, Jane Got a Gun is a female-centric Western that deserves to be seen.

| Sep 29, 2021

The cast are strong, particularly Portman, who keeps Jane hardened to her situation until one single moment of emotional release - which devastates. Yet, the actors are a little adrift in a film that never really finds itself in the great plains...

| May 5, 2021

O'Connor's direction grips hardest during tense action sequences, but any time Jane hasn't got her gun, the film and its atmosphere deflates.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2019

Portman makes a convincing frontierswoman as she rides out to protect her home and family.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2018

Jane Got a Gun successfully operates as a Western with its own flourishes of home-invasion plot threading and a unique role reversal take on the genre regarding gender

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2017

The personal relationships are pleasingly complex, characters you start off loathing you end up liking, and, of course, there's a terrific shootout in the end.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 24, 2017

Jane Got a Gun is a textbook-standard Western and nothing more.

| Oct 17, 2017

This is a good addition to the female-centric movies we have seen of late. Here's hoping there will be more to come.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2017

If Jane Got a Gun had been interested in giving its main character any power of her own, instead of acquiring a weapon, she might have gotten the heck out of Dodge and joined Furiosa and Rey for a party out in the desert.

| Jun 27, 2017

Jane Got a Gun just leaves you wondering, Why isn't it better? And perhaps, even, ever so slightly grateful that it isn't worse.

| Jun 20, 2017

Though I still have faith in modern Westerns as a whole, I realize that Jane Got a Gun is one of many that will likely be forgotten in time.

| Feb 22, 2017

This isn't a terrible movie; it certainly isn't the train wreck bomb of a release I've heard it described as. It just isn't anything great or especially engaging worth recommending.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 10, 2017

Dusting itself off from a nightmare production, this western finally arrives to shoot, for the most part, straight and true. It certainly ain't no calamity Jane.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2017

Jane lacks a strong vision, doing justice to neither the camp potential of its title nor the sophistication of its structure. She's got a gun, all right, but it's shooting blanks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2017

Finds a rather cunning way to make a brutishly straightforward scenario seem profoundly muddled.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 6, 2016

Jane Got A Gun has the promise of a strong female leading Western; the by the numbers end result doesn't even barely eclipse the central trio's last time on screen.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 8, 2016