Maverick is pretty lightweight. It will probably please, though not thrill, undemanding viewers who are fans of the stars.

| May 9, 2023

"Maverick" is the kind of old-fashioned western comedy we rarely see nowadays.

| Apr 20, 2023

Brought to you by the actor-director duo (Gibson and Richard Donner) who gave the world the mega-popular Lethal Weapon series, this offers the same winning mix of action and comedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2022

The script is notionally based on the old television series of the same name, but the screenwriter William Goldman, has produced something depressingly up to date in its incoherence, its crisis of confidence served up with a sickly grin.

| Nov 15, 2017

Maverick is quintessential summer fare, an unpretentious no-brainer that relies mostly on the star wattage of Gibson, Foster and old reliable James Garner.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 2, 2014

[Maverick] succeeds, just barely, on the good will of its stars and the sumptuousness of its Western locations.

| Sep 2, 2014

By the time Donner crowds his climactic poker game with a bevy of veteran Western character actors, decades of movie tradition have been reduced to window dressing, and Maverick leaves you hungry for the real thing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 2, 2014

[Gibson and Garner] can make you smile contentedly even when the script is wandering and they're just sort of standing around waiting for its next good part to develop.

| Sep 2, 2014

Maverick is smart-alecky without being very smart. It's full of spoofy, har-dee-har-har ribaldries -- this film practically winks at you.

| Sep 2, 2014

This movie doesn't have the wry kick of the 온라인카지노추천 show at its best. Too rich, too loaded, Maverick may have misplayed its cards, kept its eyes on the pot instead of the players. In movies, as in poker, you can't always trust a pat hand.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 2, 2014

Goldman and director Richard Donner don't know when to stop mining a gag and to move on. That the film runs in excess of two hours is indicative of the filmmakers' love affair with scenes that don't work.

| Sep 2, 2014

It's cleverly crafted, and you can't help enjoying it even when you know it's manipulating you as brazenly as a poker dealer with tricky fingers and a well-stacked deck.

| Sep 2, 2014

Somewhere about halfway through Hour Two, you might find yourself looking at your watch and wondering, 'Like, when is this movie going to begin?'

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 2, 2014

We can close the competition for the most entertaining of the current spate of feature movies based on old 온라인카지노추천 shows.

| Sep 2, 2014

Maverick never takes itself seriously, which establishes the tone for serious fun. Goldman's screenplay is a model of ingenuity, setting increasingly complicated traps for the three leads, and rather amazed that they wriggle free.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 2, 2014

Maverick reminds us of what killed the western in the first place.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 2, 2014

Despite the attention of master scriptwriter William Goldman, this gentle tribute to the hit comedy western 온라인카지노추천 series missed a golden opportunity for a razor-sharp spoof. There's no doubt the stars had a ball, though.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 2, 2014

Facetious and cynical, Mel Gibson's star vehicle is glossy and superficially enteratining, but doesn't begin to approximate the charm of James Garner and the original 온라인카지노추천 series.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 30, 2012

True deft wit is just plum missing from this good-natured, flat-footed, eager-to- please, tee-hee Western.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

...an easygoing diversion that could've (and should've) been so much better...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 17, 2011