Open Range (2003) Critic Reviews

There's a lot in this movie, simple, big, small and exciting. It's the year's first serious contender for big prizes. What's not to like about this picture? Read the full review

An imperfect but deeply involving and beautifully made Western.Read the full review

Say what you like, think what you will, scoff if you have to (and you will definitely have to), but in the final analysis Kevin Knows Westerns. Read the full review

An intensely scenic, refreshingly humanistic oater that dares to be sincere and open-hearted.Read the full review

It's a fine, old-fashioned 2 1/4 hours at the Bijou. Read the full review

A fine, heartfelt film, sometimes harrowing in its violence but blessedly free of pretension or bombast, even though it aspires to -- and achieves -- the stature of a classic Western. Read the full review

A patient, suspenseful exercise in genre craftsmanshipRead the full review

There's nothing corny, however, about the climactic shoot-out, which Costner has staged superbly as an extended logistical mini-war that surges and rifle-cracks with bloody abandon through what feels like every building in town. Call it dances with guns.Read the full review

This is a great two-hour motion picture. Unfortunately, it runs 20 minutes longer than that. Read the full review