Decidedly “old school” in both content and intent, this doesn’t expand the parameters of the Western but instead feels like a throwback to the types of oaters that populated moviehouses until their fizzle in the late 70s.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 3, 2024

At a tight pace, it's an entertaining revisionist western that puts the right cards on the table in solid characters and in a tension that increases like a clock ticking before the final shootout at the appointed time. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 14, 2024

Introspective. Retrospective. The Old West. The American Cowboy. A part of our heritage for which America has an enduring love.

| Nov 7, 2019

Here is Costner, calm and careful, his skin these days only a little older with its new indentations and fine markings. And when he is like this on screen, he is perfect.

| Dec 14, 2017

Some killing, but most violence is PG-13.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 26, 2010

The thunderous climax -one of the muddiest, bloodiest and most chaotic gunfights of the 2000s -makes it clear that Kevin Costner's plaintive, patient, slightly overlong Western was only sitting for a spell to race toward the finish.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 17, 2010

Range is handed a stunning period scope by Costner's directorial eye, while forming an unexpectedly tender core to help endear these character past their grizzled exterior.

| Original Score: A | Dec 17, 2009

An unbelievable old-fashioned western...

| Apr 29, 2009

Thoroughly enjoyable and involving, Kevin Costner's Open Range is a beautifully made western about flawed heroes who believe in redemption, loyalty and respect.

| Oct 18, 2008

Something like...It's a Wonderful Life, only rich in slaughter.

| Jun 9, 2008

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 27, 2007

Costner finds in the Western something grand, familiar and new within a genre that clearly has some life in it yet.

| Original Score: B | Sep 11, 2007

While equally paying homage to directors Peckinpah, Eastwood, and Kurosawa, what makes Open Range special is that it's a love story, too. And one peopled by endearing characters we're inclined to care about when the bloodletting has finally ended.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 10, 2007

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Handsomely mounted, as you would expect, Open Range has a good deal to commend it.

| Jan 26, 2006

By the end, I was thinking this is probably one of the best westerns made since Kevin Costner first hopped on a horse in "Silverado."

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Good for Costner: at the close of a summer cluttered with dumb action films, sequels and remakes, he's bucked the trend and put himself back in the saddle again.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2005

Open Range est tout simplement un bon vieux western qui fait plaisir voir.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Feb 25, 2005

... even though Costner's sense of a satisfying ending is a bit too ordinary and unimaginative, I found Open Range refreshing.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jan 15, 2005