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If ever there was a gateway drug to the happy addiction of Hollywood oaters, this is it. Jan 21, 2014 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
If ever there was a gateway drug to the happy addiction of Hollywood oaters, this is it.
Joshua Rothkopf
My Darling Clementine must be one of the sweetest and most good-hearted of all Westerns. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
My Darling Clementine must be one of the sweetest and most good-hearted of all Westerns.
Roger Ebert
Slow-paced tale of Old West shootout has violence. Mar 14, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Slow-paced tale of Old West shootout has violence.
Barbara Shulgasser
If less than its outsized reputation, this Western is still a fun view, particularly in Joe MacDonald's austere camerawork in Monument Valley. Apr 29, 2016 | Full Review…
If less than its outsized reputation, this Western is still a fun view, particularly in Joe MacDonald's austere camerawork in Monument Valley.
Donald J. Levit
Simple in its storytelling while transcendent as a poem of rhythms, bonds and values. Sep 1, 2015 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Simple in its storytelling while transcendent as a poem of rhythms, bonds and values.
Ian Mantgani
generally considered the Wyatt Earp film against which all others are judged Oct 30, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
generally considered the Wyatt Earp film against which all others are judged
James Kendrick
Ford the mythmaker was at the height of his powers in 1946's My Darling Clementine, but it's a remarkably relaxed and assured piece of work. Oct 13, 2014 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
Ford the mythmaker was at the height of his powers in 1946's My Darling Clementine, but it's a remarkably relaxed and assured piece of work.
Scott Tobias
The film subtly complicates viewer expectations early on, eschewing clear-cut character rivalries in favor of more complex emotional and social configurations. Jan 21, 2014 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
The film subtly complicates viewer expectations early on, eschewing clear-cut character rivalries in favor of more complex emotional and social configurations.
Matthew Connolly
Launched the series of masterpieces in the late '40s and 1950s that forever after defined [Ford] as the greatest director of Westerns in history, Oct 27, 2008 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…
Launched the series of masterpieces in the late '40s and 1950s that forever after defined [Ford] as the greatest director of Westerns in history,
Tim Brayton
John Ford's last film as a contract director for Fox is a perfect western. Nov 30, 2007 | Rating: 5/5
John Ford's last film as a contract director for Fox is a perfect western.
Cole Smithey
The quintessential Wyatt Earp movie and one of the greatest westerns ever filmed. Sep 13, 2007 | Rating: A | Full Review…
The quintessential Wyatt Earp movie and one of the greatest westerns ever filmed.
Dennis Schwartz
The first couple of times we saw My Darling Clementine on the late show we watched the beginning, fell asleep in the middle, woke up at the end, and thought we had sat through one of the best films we had ever seen. Then we finally forced ourselves to sta Jun 14, 2007 | Rating: 3/5
The first couple of times we saw My Darling Clementine on the late show we watched the beginning, fell asleep in the middle, woke up at the end, and thought we had sat through one of the best films we had ever seen. Then we finally forced ourselves to sta
Douglas Pratt
Built by Ford, John Ford, with part mythos about the gunfight at the OK Corral, part nostalgia for the generation this film was intended signified by the use of the song of the title, and part myth building for what they wanted to become. I googled the town of Tombstone, AZ and Monument Valley and they're miles apart and yet in Ford's vision they're virtual neighbors. This is perfect filmmaking for projecting what its intended audience wanted to see, a mirror reflection of their loves, and indeed beautiful to behold.
Super Reviewer
It is a welcome surprise to see a lighthearted Western that places its importance more on the characters than on the famous real gunfight depicted - and the deep-focus shots are beautiful -, but still the film has trouble with maintaining the focus and pacing in the second act.
Fonda is fantastic as Wyatt Earp and featuring Walter Brennan's most sinister performance.
A fantastic telling of the gunfight at the OK Coral. It's brought down ever so slightly by Ford's romanticism of the genre. Too much focus on the ladies distances the characters from, what should be, their heartache. Tombstone will always be my favorite version of this story, and this hits many of the same notes. It's wonderfully shot, and unlike some early westerns, you get a real sense of heat, space, and isolation. Fonda is his typical brilliant self, carrying the film, and capturing Earp's rugged edges. It has a very clean pace, even though, what should be the main focus, is simply the interludes for the bromance/romance.
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