Not a great film by any standard, this is a western for people who are completely ignorant about the genre.
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02/05/07
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
No review available.
08/13/02
The political correctness is so politically correct and sappy and sucky and conscience-appeasing and politically-pacifying and just generally brain-numbing
05/05/07
Plodding, simplistic and overlong politically correct Western epic.
03/02/08
No review available.
07/13/04
No review available.
08/27/02
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.
02/05/07
Top CriticDespite its empathy and respect for Native Americans, the film has very little going for it besides its admittedly majestic trappings.
06/07/03
Its triumph is that it is never exactly boring, only dulled. It's a movie in acute need of sharpening.
05/20/03
An epic film that without its lead might have been better.
02/10/07
The film's real joy rests in Costner's meticulous attention to historical detail, creating a world that is both moving and credible.
02/20/08
In his directorial debut, Kevin Costner brings a rare degree of grace and feeling to this elegiac tale.
01/28/08
No one can doubt Kevin Costner's sincerity or vision.
02/10/07
No review available.
04/16/04
Costner has single-handedly revived the Western to its deserved state as both an entertaining and artistic form.
01/01/00
The beginning of the impressive revival of the western
05/24/03
One of the best films of our time. The finest achievement of Kevin Costner's career.
06/19/06
Costner (with Michael Blake's screenplay) creates a vision so childlike, so willfully romantic, it's hard to put up a fight.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe 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
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