All the Pretty Horses Critic Reviews

You can see how this movie could have been jacked up into a one-level action picture, but what makes it special is how Thornton modulates the material.Read the full review

An elegiac, visually hypnotic film about love, honor, reverence for nature and the loss of tradition.Read the full review

The movie, for all its prettiness, manages to be shallow and portentous at the same time.Read the full review

In an odd way Pretty Horses has been too faithful to the spirit of this somber, fatalistic, melancholy romance, too much a stubborn ode to stoicism, to light any emotional fires.Read the full review

Thornton, writer-director of the superb "Slingblade," has a gift for depicting down-and-dirty scenes among men. And when our three principal characters go riding from Texas to Mexico, this is the best part of the movie.Read the full review

To paraphrase Andre Malraux, it invokes but it doesn't always supply, doesn't course strongly enough with the book's themes of blood and earth and dislocation.Read the full review

As this year's literary adaptations go, Horses comes a lot closer to being a truly bad movie than "The Perfect Storm" did, yet it would be hard to argue that the two are not the year's most disappointing in terms of trampled hopes.Read the full review

It doesn't help that Damon and Cruz fail to generate sparks or that the second half of the film, in which John and Lacey face hell in a Mexican prison, feels bluntly edited to fit a two-hour running time.Read the full review

A half-broken adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's great modern Western novel. Neither dull nor exciting.Read the full review