Since Ford’s father was born in Co Galway and his mother on the island of Inishmore, and since this is such an enjoyable piece of nonsense, he gets a pass for this depiction of the country as a nation of loveable, blarney-spouting, brawling drunks.

| May 8, 2024

No other John Ford movie provides me with as much pure pleasure -- and leaves a perpetual grin on my mug -- as the Irish-American director’s ode to his family’s ancestral country.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 8, 2023

Ford early on captures the film's more dramatic moments before giving way to its lightly romantic humor.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 20, 2020

A lovely film. A bucolic romance with a western soul. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 14, 2020

It may not be a Western, but it's one of director John Ford's finest collaborations with John Wayne.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 23, 2020

The Quiet Man is John Ford's best picture since The Informer, but much, much funnier.

| Jul 24, 2019

Incredible chemistry and one of the most epic kisses in all of movies make it a fun watch for me

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 8, 2019

Credit must go to O'Hara, who is at her most magnetic in this film, and is central to what makes "The Quiet Man" so enjoyable and so memorable.

| Mar 15, 2019

As much an anthropological adventure as a romantic rhapsody.

| Dec 5, 2016

The film's saucy mix of comedy and melodrama is one of its greatest charms, although it can give you whiplash from time to time, especially if you're not used to Ford's brand of broad, back-slapping comedy

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 27, 2016

Highly endearing even as it shows its age... filled with gorgeous shots and without a single wasted frame.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 13, 2016

[The script] tends to resolve its problems by having the cast embrace, fraternity-brother fashion, and break out into full-throated ballads.

| Sep 5, 2012

John Ford certainly has a right to some Irish blarney

| Original Score: B | Oct 25, 2011

John Ford may be the first director to make me like John Wayne.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 15, 2011

Old-fashioned charmer for the family.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2010

Brilliantly photographed romantic comedy.

| Aug 8, 2008

This is an amusing The Taming of the Shrew type comedy handled with a professional softness of touch by all concerned.

| Mar 11, 2008

This is a robust romantic drama of a native-born's return to Ireland. Director John Ford took cast and cameras to Ireland to tell the story [by Maurice Walsh] against actual backgrounds.

| Mar 11, 2008

Ideal Sunday afternoon fare.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 11, 2008

John Ford's 1952 Oscar winner is a tribute to an Ireland that exists only in the imaginations of songwriters and poets like Ford.

| Mar 11, 2008