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

| Apr 20, 2023

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] 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

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

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

It's an enjoyable family film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 25, 2008

There can be little doubt that a whole new generation is about to discover the charm, wit and fun of Maverick.

Full Review | Mar 25, 2008

A financially successful exercise in target-marketing, but not much of a movie.

| Feb 9, 2006

Maverick exploits and undermines every western cliche from gunfights to war-whooping Indians to runaway stagecoaches and heroes hanging off cliffs.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

The first lighthearted, laugh-oriented family Western in a long time, and one of the nice things about it is, it doesn't feel the need to justify its existence. It acts like it's the most natural thing in the world to be a Western.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Affectionate, amiable, eager-to-please, in a 온라인카지노추천-movieish sort of way.

| Jan 1, 2000

This is a rollicking, Saturday afternoon adventure, the quintessential summer movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

A gaudy reincarnation of the 온라인카지노추천 series with Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and James Garner flashing diamonds, breaking hearts and clubbing cliches damn near to death.

| Jan 1, 2000