Guess what? It's not actually that bad.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 5, 2017

In short, the "spirit guide" of this film would be an odious trash heap.

| May 10, 2016

A horrifically boring movie that feels like a long lost sequel to Wild Wild West (1999), another big-budget western disaster.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 23, 2015

This isn't the complete disaster of Wild Wild West, but that's only because none of the $250 million was spent to turn Kenneth Branagh into a mechanical spider.

| Jan 3, 2014

Depp has done the kooky, costumed character shtick so many times, it's no longer surprising to see him bury his index finger into the desert sand, then lick it

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 22, 2013

The first genuinely characterful action blockbuster of the summer: both a big, beautifully realised throwback to Hollywood Boy's Own storytelling and an intelligent revision of Old West history.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 12, 2013

It's no sort of masterpiece. But The Lone Ranger is a good deal less dreadful than advance word has suggested.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2013

Gallops across our skulls for two and a half hours, pounding them into the same kind of desert as that on screen: a barren flatland with occasional rearing outcries of rock.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 8, 2013

Flying as high as an eagle or scampering across the tracks like a lizard, Verbinski's camerawork is off the-chain and the visual-effects are first class.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 8, 2013

Verbinski has surely modified this film's running time using dastardly new temporal-distortion technology, so that each of its 149 minutes contains 250 seconds. The South American landmass peeled off from the western seaboard of Africa quicker than this.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 8, 2013

Frustrating, lazy and lifeless.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 6, 2013

Talk about a pleasant surprise! Real storytelling, well thought-out and beautifully, at times insanely, executed, with excitement, laughs and fun to make you feel seven years old again.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 5, 2013

There's no reason such a durable set of characters and tropes couldn't ride again. Verbinski and Bruckheimer just aren't the types to do the necessary streamlining.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 11, 2013

The Lone Ranger staggers drunkenly from antic comedy to soulful solemnity to bloody horror without ever quite settling, or deciding what it is.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 11, 2013

A strange and fascinating and often thrilling movie artefact.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2013

Your expectations of how bad The Lone Ranger is can't trump the reality.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 8, 2013

Each decade gets the western it deserves. For our time we get the very essence of soulless corporate excess and celebrity self-regard.

| Original Score: C | Jul 7, 2013

You ought to provide the audience with someone to root for, and this lumbering screenplay offers nothing but lamebrains...

| Jul 3, 2013

It's as obsessive and overbearing as Steven Spielberg's "1941"-and, I'll bet, as likely to be re-evaluated twenty years from now, and described as "misunderstood."

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 3, 2013

Somewhere, around the hour-and-a-half mark, The Lone Ranger makes the fateful decision not to end. Worse, the movie keeps not-ending for another full hour.

| Jul 3, 2013