For three and a half hours, this epic immerses you in a tradition that passes on its wisdom to the modern world through sheer entertainment.

| Apr 30, 2025

Whether it’s the story, the characters, the action, the grand sweeping nature of the film, or just the excitement and fun that comes with this story, it is satisfying in pretty much any way I look at it, along with being as essential as any other classic.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 2, 2024

Seven Samurai is one of the crown jewels of cinema, a movie that could be screened for visiting aliens in order to show what the art form can achieve.

| Aug 1, 2024

The 4K restoration isn't without problems, but it does allow one to better appreciate the beauty of Akira Kurosawa's black-and-white masterpiece. The film is male-centric, but more important are some cultural points within the script.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Few filmmakers have Kurosawa's ability to make the frame feel so vast.

| Jul 12, 2024

Seven Samurai” remains a timeless masterpiece. Kurosawa's editing prowess, evident in the climactic sequence, cemented the film's status as a timeless classic, echoing the eternal struggle for justice and sacrifice in feudal Japan

| Original Score: 10 | Mar 3, 2024

If Akira Kurosawa's entire body of work is full of forays into different types of stories, then Seven Samurai marks the moment where all of his most pertinent themes coalesce into a single, three-and-a-half-hour film.

| Jun 27, 2023

As usual in a Kurosawa epic, the film is deliberate about getting started, but once the battle is joined, all is breakneck fury.

| Mar 16, 2023

Kurosawa's epic adventure masterpiece, is one of the best films ever made. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 19, 2023

Mr. Kurosawa has made another high ranking film.

| Aug 16, 2022

Seven Samurai is long; it is brutal; it is not always easy to follow. But it is magnificent.

| Aug 8, 2022

One of the finest films ever made.

| Jul 6, 2022

Seven Samurai is never dull, and it provided a model for future action movies in many ways—from its “assembling the team of fighters” narrative stretch to the proto-Peckinpah use of slow-motion in brutal action sequences.

| Mar 28, 2022

Seven Samurai is a spectacle of the human spirit, an interplay of hope and questions about the way of the world, and finally, an epic in which ideas and action converge with a remarkable, vital scope.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 21, 2022

The glorious vigour and strength of this film is presented with such theatrical relish and flair: its energy flashes out of the screen like a sword.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 27, 2021

Absorbing as the story itself is it's the tremendous resourcefulness of Akira Kurosawa's direction (and probably his writing) which makes the picture a real work of art.

| May 12, 2021

There are many excellencies in [Seven Samurai]. The acting of the men who are unknown to American audiences but whose talents are obvious; the careful building of suspense; the realism of the battle scenes... [and] the beauties of the countryside.

| May 4, 2021

The picture pyramids to high tension as traps are set for the anticipated marauders... Keystone of the drama is marvelous acting.

| May 4, 2021

The outstanding feature of the picture is the photography. At times the camera angles are sensational.

| May 4, 2021

[Seven Samurai ] rates my unqualified whoops of approval.

| May 4, 2021