Sergio Leone's epic looks good, almost great, restored to its original running time.
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06/08/04
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
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Reviews Counted:58
Fresh:57
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.8/10
Consensus: Arguably the greatest of the spaghetti westerns, this epic features a compelling story, memorable performances, breathtaking landscapes, and a haunting score.
Runtime: 2 hrs 59 mins
Genre: Westerns
Synopsis: Blondie (Clint Eastwood) and Tuco (Eli Wallach) are gunmen who admire each other professionally but dislike each other personally. Encountering a group of dying soldiers, Tuco learns the location... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Mario Brega
Director: Sergio Leone
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Reviews for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Top CriticA beautiful film, directed with supreme confidence and passion — and lots of action.
05/24/04
One of the most compelling validations of the western genre’s most elemental touchstones.
05/17/04
The point is not what happens in the movie but how it happens, a curious blend of partly humorous, partly dramatic, partly elegiac legend.
04/29/04
profound
04/03/04
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03/29/04
No review available.
03/09/04
Of all the great films of the 1960s, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is one of a fistful that can be truly appreciated only on the big screen.
09/11/03
Leone's blockbuster is balanced on the razor's edge between popular entertainment and art film. It took classic American themes and turned them inside out.
09/11/03
Though the restoration isn't substantial, any excuse will do to revisit the moment when a young Clint Eastwood became a star and in the process helped reinvent the Western.
09/05/03
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08/29/03
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08/22/03
This is a great movie, whatever strange estuary of the western river it occupies.
08/22/03
Top Critic...has a self-conscious panache that's years ahead of its time.
08/11/03
An improbable masterpiece -- a bizarre mixture of grandly operatic visuals, grim brutality and sordid violence that keeps wrenching you from one extreme to the other.
08/07/03
Top CriticIt demonstrates that a film can be exciting and funny and epic in scope while still retaining the peculiar vision of an artiste compelled to capture his obsessions with a Techniscope lens.
08/07/03
Art it is, summoned out of the imagination of Leone and painted on the wide screen so vividly that we forget what marginal productions these films were.
08/05/03
Top CriticThe uncut new print reclaims the widescreen majesty of Tonino Delli Colli's cinematography, allowing you to see every iconic wart and furrow on every bad guy's face.
08/01/03
No review available.
07/11/03
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