The Searchers Reviews
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
It may also be the best American movie, or at least the most American movie ....
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Top CriticContains scenes of magnificence, and one of John Wayne's best performances.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Arizona Daily Star
This is a film for the ages.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Combustible Celluloid
The Searchers gets so close to greatness you can almost smell it. It's easy to see why Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, and many others have championed it.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Some fine vignettes of frontier life in the early southwest and a realistic presentation of the difficulties faced by the settlers in carving out a homestead in dangerous Indian country.
There is perhaps some discrepancy in the play between Wayne's heroic image and the pathological outsider he plays here (forever excluded from home, as the doorway shots at beginning and end suggest), but it hardly matters, given the film's visual splendou
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
A timeless classic, Wayne's most complex role. For anyone who says he cannot act, check this movie out!
| Original Score: 5/5
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The quintessential American film about what it once meant to be American.
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| Original Score: A+
Movie Metropolis
...a much more multi-layered Western than most other such examples of the genre, and it is surely a classic of its kind.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Filmcritic.com
The minute The Searchers begins, it's impossible to look away.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Old School Reviews
...it won't play as well with Native American audiences or with people sensitive to its inadvertent racism
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| Original Score: B+
Cinema Sight
One of the better examples of the western genre.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
rec.arts.movies.reviews
A film that belongs to the category of so-called "important" movies - those which are remembered less by their own merit, and more by the way they influenced future film- makers.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Eye for Film
An absolute must see.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
