Nominated for 1 Oscar. 4 wins & 3 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Ford's purest and most sustained expression of the familiar themes of the passing of the Old West, the conflict between the untamed wilderness and the cultivated garden, and the power of myth.
– Nigel Floyd,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
A great film, rich in thought and feeling, composed in rhythms that vary from the elegiac to the spontaneous.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
24 Apr 2009
rotten:
John Ford and the writers have somewhat overplayed their hands. They have taken a disarmingly simple and affecting premise, developed it with craft and skill to a natural point of conclusion, and then have proceeded to run it into the ground.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
7 Jul 2010
fresh:
There is a purity to the John Ford style. His composition is classical. He arranges his characters within the frame to reflect power dynamics -- or sometimes to suggest a balance is changing.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
30 Dec 2011
fresh:
There's much to say about it; the simplest is that it's both the most romantic of Westerns and the greatest American political movie.