Ride With the Devil Critic Reviews

Lee has made a brutal but sensitively observed film about the fringes of the Civil War.Read the full review

In its quiet way, Ride With the Devil is terrific.Read the full review

It's one of the few films that persuades you that it went out to meet the war and bring it to us with verisimilitude.Read the full review

For fans of Westerns, the film may have particular appeal. Its period gear and garb and galloping horses are major attractionsRead the full review

A serious film with a lot on its mind, is probably the most intelligent treatment of this period we've had.Read the full review

Dramatically skimpy, even though the movie stirs together themes of love, sex, death and war.Read the full review

Jewel is more like an acting zircon because she just can't project, but at least she looks the part, and her novelty value isn't unwelcome.Read the full review

A meditation on the racial and class conflicts at the heart of the American character.Read the full review

Ang Lee's bloody but dramatically anemic depiction of the American Civil War as fought by boys without uniforms.Read the full review