Once you're sucked into the leisurely narrative, it's hard to resist.
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01/26/06
Dances with Wolves (1990)
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Reviews Counted:45
Fresh:35
Rotten:10
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... [More]
Starring: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant
Director: Kevin Costner
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Reviews for Dances with Wolves
An old-fashioned movie with a smart, contemporary perspective.
01/01/00
It's a rousing adventure, a touching romance, and a stirring drama.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo one can doubt Kevin Costner's sincerity or vision.
02/10/07
Shining parable about hospitality, a human resource that seems to be underrated and in short supply in our world rife with hostilities.
08/31/02
Its triumph is that it is never exactly boring, only dulled. It's a movie in acute need of sharpening.
05/20/03
Top CriticIn his directorial debut, Kevin Costner brings a rare degree of grace and feeling to this elegiac tale.
01/28/08
Top CriticA simple story, magnificently told.
01/01/00
Top CriticEven those of us who grew up with Broken Arrow or Cheyenne Autumn or A Man Called Horse or Little Big Man will be affected by Costner's heartfelt tribute to this vanished culture.
01/09/02
Costner has single-handedly revived the Western to its deserved state as both an entertaining and artistic form.
01/01/00
A stunning combination of all-American boyishness and sweeping grandeur.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe political correctness is so politically correct and sappy and sucky and conscience-appeasing and politically-pacifying and just generally brain-numbing
05/05/07
This is a majestic requiem for a world that is gone.
01/01/00
Dances with Wolves is told with a grace and humor that keeps the viewer constantly entertained through its nearly three-hour length.
01/01/00
The high-water mark of Kevin Costner's career.
08/17/05
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.
06/10/06
An epic film that without its lead might have been better.
02/10/07
One of the best films of our time. The finest achievement of Kevin Costner's career.
06/19/06
Still enthrals with its sweeping direction, gentle humour and lack of pretension.
06/06/01
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