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83
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Critic Score

80
Critics' score based on 8 reviews.
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one of the top westerns ever maybe top 5

May 13,2012
mikusmike

Have always considered it to be my all time favorite western.

January 28,2012
robhaugh5

Great movie,intense.The actors that were chosen made the movie a hit in my opinion...

November 09,2011
aprilrc2000

greatest gun fight scene ever-best sub plot-Jason Robards dubiously had the best role in the film

April 06,2011
elelec2

I saw it for the 1st time when I was about 10 years old. Loved it then....Still love it now!!!!!

December 26,2008
LSBACK
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Critic Reviews

Leone brought back a masterpiece, a film that expands his baroque, cartoonish style into genuine grandeur, weaving dozens of thematic variations and narrative arabesques around a classical western foundation myth.(Review of Original Release)Full Review

Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader

An additional treat is seeing Hollywood good guy Henry Fonda playing one of the nastiest curs in the West. Once Upon a Time in the West is one of the great films in cinema history. (8/30/2000 Review)Full Review

Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

Akira Kurosawa once said that Toshiro Mifune could give him in three feet of film the emotion any other actor would take 10 to deliver, but in a single flash of Fonda's electric turquoise orbs, Leone (Kurosawa's first and sincerest flatterer-imitator) managed to say as much about John Ford, the devil, and the corruptions of the Way Out Western world as the genre ever would.Full Review

Village Voice

Henry Fonda and Jason Robards relish each screen minute as the heavies, and Charles Bronson plays Clint Eastwood's 'man with no name' role. (Review of Original Release)Full Review

Staff (Not credited)
Variety

Good fun, especially if you like Leone's way of savoring the last morsel of every scene. (Review of Original Release)Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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