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Dances with Wolves (1990) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Dances with Wolves (1990) a score of 2.8688 out of 4

based on (57) reviews

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Filmtracks (Christian Clemmensen)

Several releases of the score are available. The original release that accompanied the film's popularity in 1990 contains all the necessary music, and is readily available many years later. The Gold release of Dances With Wolves in 1995...read the complete Dances with Wolves (1990) review at Filmtracks (Christian Clemmensen)

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EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)

While the movie is not really revisionist or a new type of Western, it's a mass-oriented film in its middlebrow sensibility and acceptable message about the co-existence between the White Man and Native Americans....read the complete Dances with Wolves (1990) review at EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)

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DVD Talk (Holly E. Ordway)

The three-hour theatrical cut of Dances with Wolves is the film that won seven Academy Awards, not the four-hour extended cut, and it shows. The theatrical version was a leisurely but well-paced and moving story; the extended cut is a bloated showcase...read the complete Dances with Wolves (1990) review at DVD Talk (Holly E. Ordway)