Movie Review for Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The

Summary: A cashbox containing $200,000, that was stolen and hidden in an unmarked grave, is the focus of three men: two criminals and a stranger.

                         Reviews of Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The
By Tom Block of culturevulture.net (8/0)
            An extravagantly plotted epic propelled by waves of free-flowing emotion and a palpable love for ...

By John J. Puccio of DVDTown.com (8/0)
            The point is not what happens in the movie but how it happens, a curious blend of partly humorous...

By Aaron Lazenby of filmcritic.com (8/0)
            profound

By Rumsey Taylor of Not Coming to a Theater Near You (8/0)
            There are many features that contribute to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’s belated renown, and ...

By Dragan Antulov of rec.arts.movies.reviews (8/0)
            Morricone's soundtrack is one the most powerful in the history cinema and it alone is the reason ...

By Marjorie Baumgarten of Austin Chronicle (4/4) No reference
            Long, funny, and featuring one of Ennio Morricone’s greatest scores, The Good, the Bad, and the U...

                         Reviews of Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The
By Dave Kehr of Chicago Reader (4/4) No reference
            Though ordained from the beginning, the three-way showdown that climaxes the film is tense and th...

By Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (4/4) No reference
            Art it is, summoned out of the imagination of Leone and painted on the wide screen so vividly tha...

By Michael Wilmington of Chicago Tribune (4/4) No reference
            An improbable masterpiece -- a bizarre mixture of grandly operatic visuals, grim brutality and so...

By Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (6/2) No reference
            [Leone] weighs every movement carefully; every footstep, every squeeze of the trigger, screams ep...

By Matt Brunson of Creative Loafing (4/4) No reference
            Clearly the work of a master filmmaker whose style has never grown stale.

By Peter Sobczynski of Critic Doctor (4/4) No reference
            It demonstrates that a film can be exciting and funny and epic in scope while still retaining the...

                         Reviews of Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The
By John Monaghan of Detroit Free Press (4/4) No reference
            Of all the great films of the 1960s, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is one of a fistful that can ...

By Glenn Abel of Hollywood Reporter (4/4) No reference
            Sergio Leone's epic looks good, almost great, restored to its original running time.

By Luke Y. Thompson of LYTRules.com (4/4) No reference
            You don't really need me to review THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY for you, do you?

By Colin Covert of Minneapolis Star Tribune (4/4) No reference
            Leone's blockbuster is balanced on the razor's edge between popular entertainment and art film. I...

By Kevin N. Laforest of Montreal Film Journal (4/4) No reference
            Sergio Leone sure is a great director. He has a unique visual style, combining gorgeous establish...

By James Rocchi of Netflix (4/4) No reference
            Both epic and intimate: The sun-baked panoramas of the West (actually Spain) and the gigantic bat...

                         Reviews of Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The
By Stephen Whitty of Newark Star-Ledger (4/4) No reference
            It's great to see a great director's film as he intended it, with rich color and restored sound.

By Marc Mohan of Oregonian (4/4) No reference
            Though the restoration isn't substantial, any excuse will do to revisit the moment when a young C...

By Frédéric Rochefort-Allie of Panorama (4/4) No reference
            Ce qui est étrange c’est que malgré le fait que les Américains soient les plus grands amateurs de...

By Andrew Wright of Portland Mercury (7/32) No reference
            Town streets stretch wider than eight-lane freeways, gargoyle-faced henchmen lurk behind every tu...

By Ted Prigge of rec.arts.movies.reviews (4/4) No reference
            The film runs about two hours and forty-five minutes, but is absolutely absorbing, and goes by qu...

By David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews (4/4) No reference
            ...while the film is seriously overlong, there are enough elements here to hold the interest of e...

                         Reviews of Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The
By Mark Robison of Reno Gazette-Journal (4/4) No reference
            A beautiful film, directed with supreme confidence and passion — and lots of action.

By Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (4/4) No reference
            There are two kinds of people, my friend. Those who love Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad, and th...

By Eric Henderson of Slant Magazine (4/4) No reference
            One of the most compelling validations of the western genre’s most elemental touchstones.

By Josh Larsen of Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (4/4) No reference
            ...has a self-conscious panache that's years ahead of its time.

By Geoff Andrew of Time Out (7/1) No reference
            It's enormous fun.

By Michael Atkinson of Village Voice (4/4) No reference
            All told, and in giant widescreen, it's only blood-red adolescent fun, but it blooms like Douglas...

                         Reviews of Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The
By Stephen Hunter of Washington Post (4/4) No reference
            This is a great movie, whatever strange estuary of the western river it occupies.

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