As a director, Costner is alive to the sweep of the country and the expansive spirit of the western-movie tradition.
Dances with Wolves (1990)
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Reviews Counted: 48
Fresh: 37
Rotten:11
Average Rating: 7/10
Consensus: A grand, sweeping epic with inarguably noble intentions and arresting cinematography, but one whose center, arguably, is not as weighty as it should be.
Runtime: 4 hrs
Genre: Westerns
Synopsis: Actor Kevin Costner made his debut behind the camera--and won an Oscar for Best Director--with this celebrated epic. In 1865, Civil War hero Lt. John Dunbar (Costner) asks to be reassigned to the... Actor Kevin Costner made his debut behind the camera--and won an Oscar for Best Director--with this celebrated epic. In 1865, Civil War hero Lt. John Dunbar (Costner) asks to be reassigned to the western frontier before it disappears. At his isolated post he develops a relationship with the peaceful Lakota Sioux and a white woman (an excellent, Oscar-nominated Mary McDonnell) who lives among them, finding greater kinship with them than with his own people. But his life with the Sioux is threatened when the Army appears, and Dunbar must decide where his loyalties truly lie. Co-starring Graham Greene, DANCES WITH WOLVES boasts seven Academy Award wins and another five nominations. [More]
Starring: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant
Starring: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Robert Pastorelli, Wes Studi
Director: Kevin Costner
Director: Kevin Costner
Producer: Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner
Composer: John Barry
Screenwriter: Michael Blake
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Reviews for Dances with Wolves
Plodding, simplistic and overlong politically correct Western epic.
The film's real joy rests in Costner's meticulous attention to historical detail, creating a world that is both moving and credible.
In his directorial debut, Kevin Costner brings a rare degree of grace and feeling to this elegiac tale.
The political correctness is so politically correct and sappy and sucky and conscience-appeasing and politically-pacifying and just generally brain-numbing
Not a great film by any standard, this is a western for people who are completely ignorant about the genre.
Sincere, capable, at times moving, but overextended, this picture is seriously hampered by its tendency to linger over everything -- especially landscapes with silhouetted figures, and not excluding its own good intentions.
One of the best films of our time. The finest achievement of Kevin Costner's career.
While the movie is not really revisionist or a new type of Western, it's a mass-oriented film in its middlebrow sensibility and acceptable message about the co-existence between the White Man and Native Americans.
Once you're sucked into the leisurely narrative, it's hard to resist.
How Costner got an Acting nomination no one will ever understand, but the rest of the film is visually pleasing and can make up for troubled directing and acting.
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